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Old English Sporting Prints And Their History Edited by Geoffrey Holme. Limited Edition.
by NEVILL, RALPH:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, The Studio Limited, 1923 (1,500 copies). Large hardback, 12.5 x 10 inches. In red cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine and front, with beveled edges, and gilt top page edging. Blue pictorial endpapers. In very good condition. Cloth sunbleached, cover faded around edges, with a couple of minor handling marks. A couple of minor handling marks to text pages. Plates all very clean and bright. Colour plates tissue guarded. Some minor tanning to tissue guards. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xv + 23pp Text. Illustrated with 103 full-page plates, 47 of which are colour plates, tipped-in on bordered mounts with titled tissue guards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88278
- Title
- Old English Sporting Prints And Their History Edited by Geoffrey Holme. Limited Edition.
- Author
- NEVILL, RALPH:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, The Studio Limited, 1923 (1,500 copies)
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books NEVILL, RALPH, Old English Sporting Prints And Their History, Geoffrey Holme, edited, Limited Edition, The Studio, 1923, 1st, illustrated, colour plates, racing, hunting, hounds, horses, steeple chase, Epsom, Fishing, engravings, painti
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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.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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