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Rambles Among The Hills In The Peak of Derbyshire and The South Downs. With Illustrations.
by JENNINGS, LOUIS, J.:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, John Murray, 1880 1st. Hardback, 8.25 x 6 inches. Halfbound crushed dark blue morocco leather fine binding by “S. Kaufmann.” Marbled boards, raised banding and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers, top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Spine a little darkened, some rubbing/bump to bottom raised band on spine, and top front leading corner on board. Some minor foxing to blank prelims and some light foxing to title and frontis. Inside pages and plates all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. ix + 301pp. Illustrated with 23 B&W illustrations (6 full-page plate engravings) and vignettes within text. Drawn on Wood by A.H. Hallam Murray and Engraved by J.W. Whymper.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94886
- Title
- Rambles Among The Hills In The Peak of Derbyshire and The South Downs. With Illustrations.
- Author
- JENNINGS, LOUIS, J.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, John Murray, 1880 1st
- Keywords
- ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY JENNINGS, LOUIS, J.: Rambles Among the Hills in the Peak of Derbyshire and the South Downs, With Illustrations, John Murray, 1880 1st, Illustrated, B&W plates, vignette illustrations, natural history, chatsworth, haddon hall, hardw
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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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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.
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- 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...
- 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...
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