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Oxford: Historical and Picturesque Notes
by Lang, Andrew
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1902. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Orig. maroon publisher's cloth, gilt lettering, stamped floral border. 282 pp., ads. [40] B&W plates. Bumping and rubbing to spine ends, slight fading to spine. Slight age toning to edges of pages. A history of Oxford University.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008024
- Title
- Oxford: Historical and Picturesque Notes
- Author
- Lang, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Seeley and Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Andrew Lang, Oxford, Oxfordshire, History, Travel, England, Great Britain, oxford University, History, university Towns
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Travel; Education;
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All prices listed in Canadian dollars. We guarantee that all items are properly packaged and handled with care. Please allow one to two business days for your order to be shipped. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. All sales will be shipped with a tracking number for your convenience.
About the Seller
Minotavros Books
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Whitby, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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