NATURAL HISTORY & SPORT IN MORAY
by St. John, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
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About This Item
United Kingdom: Edmonston & Douglas. Very Good+. 1863. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. An 1863 1st edition hardcover, recently re-bound to a high standard, in navy blue cloth with bumped corners. The blue leather spine, with bright gilt lettering, is lightly bumped to the ends. The original text-block is in excellent condition, without cropping or annotation. The pages are occasionally very slightly foxed, the original rough-cut edges are tanned with the top edge gilt. A lovely copy. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; B&W Illustrations; 336 pages .
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- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56418
- Title
- NATURAL HISTORY & SPORT IN MORAY
- Author
- St. John, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Edmonston & Douglas
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1863
- Keywords
- Natural History, Sport, Scotland, Moray
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
About The Old Bookshelf
Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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