The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting, for the Use of the Rising Generation of Sportsmen, and more especially those of The Hertfordshire Hunt Club. With numerous illustrations.
by RADCLIFFE, F.P. Delme
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Rudolph Ackerman, London. 1939. First edition. Rudolph Ackerman, London. 1939. Hardback, NO DW. 4to. Bound in half maroon morocco, raised bands with repeated motif to compartments and type in gilt to spine. Very rubbed to spine. Marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge of pages gilt. Frontis. with engraved illustrated title-page. plus plates, diagrams and engravings to text. 327 pages. Prelims foxed otherwise a clean and sound copy.
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- Bookseller
- Addyman Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 98533
- Title
- The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting, for the Use of the Rising Generation of Sportsmen, and more especially those of The Hertfordshire Hunt Club. With numerous illustrations.
- Author
- RADCLIFFE, F.P. Delme
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- Rudolph Ackerman, London. 1939
- Keywords
- SPORTS and RECREATION hunting
- Bookseller catalogs
- SPORTS and RECREATION;
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Addyman Books
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Spine
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
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- 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...