Pictorial New Zealand
by MORRIS, Professor E E et al & PERCEVAL, Sir W B (Preface)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cassell and Company 1895. FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine & front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 301pp + unpaginated publisher's catalogue to rear, illus, VG (moderate chipping to spine extrems, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, moderate cracking to front gutter- ffep possibly missing, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional foxing throughout)
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- Hard To Find Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 312705
- Title
- Pictorial New Zealand
- Author
- MORRIS, Professor E E et al & PERCEVAL, Sir W B (Preface)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company 1895
- Keywords
- first editions New Zealand history pictorial
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Glossary
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
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