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Nature Near London Handmade Paper Edition.
by JEFFERIES, RICHARD:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Chatto & Windus, 1893 1st (Hand-Made Paper Edition). Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. Brown cloth, beveled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Top page edges gilt. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Darkening to spine and board edges, some minor fading to boards. Thin chip/nick to top end of spine. Some minor darkening to endpapers. Binders stamp, “Southeran, Sackville St. London,” to front endpaper. Page edges rough cut, but inside all pages clean and tight throughout. 242pp. + 1pp cat. Jefferies deals here mainly with the countryside near his new home. This collection contains exiting and detailed descriptions of his nature rambles in the Surbiton area and also essays about Sussex.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81947
- Title
- Nature Near London Handmade Paper Edition.
- Author
- JEFFERIES, RICHARD:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Chatto & Windus, 1893 1st (Hand-Made Paper Edition)
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY Natural History, Literature, Jefferies, London, Sussex, essays, 1893, 1st, Hand-Made Paper Edition, Chatto & Windus, Southeran, Sackville St. London
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
Biblio member since 2016
Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- New
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