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The Romance of Hatton Garden
by H Marryat and Una Broadbent
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good.
- Seller
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Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: James Cornish, 1930. Hardcover. Good.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Edges are bumped. Marbled endpapers and gilt top page edges. Pages are rough cut. Binding is tight. Pages are age tanned with occasional slight foxing. Numerous charming line drawings and a pull out drawing of all the Hatton Garden houses, in very good condition. A charming small book, decumenting a lost London. 1930
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4561
- Title
- The Romance of Hatton Garden
- Author
- H Marryat and Una Broadbent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James Cornish
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Reader’s Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Reader’s Books
Biblio member since 2019
Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- 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...
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