Racing Life of Lord George Cavendish Bentinck, M.P.
by John Kent, edited by Francis Lawley:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and sons, 1892. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xx, 482pp. Frontispiece, plates. Attractively rebound in half black calf, marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers and page edges. Slight rubbing of the boards, endpapers foxed, short ownership inscription; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78463
- Title
- Racing Life of Lord George Cavendish Bentinck, M.P.
- Author
- John Kent, edited by Francis Lawley:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and sons, 1892.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled boards
- ...
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