The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1912. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Doyle Richard. Type: Book pp xx, 844. Fully bound in blue calf with gilt titles and decoration. 5 raised bands to spine. Marbled end papers and edges. A Sherborne School crest to the upper board and prize plate to the front paste down. Upper board scuffed, spine fine.
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- Bookseller
- Strawberry Hill Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010076
- Title
- The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Illustrator
- Doyle Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Strawberry Hill Books
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Rotherfield, East Sussex
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...