Rural Sports ( Volumes I, II, III)
by Daniel, Rev. Wm B
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bunny & Gold , 1801. Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A three volume set of Daniel's Rural Sports bound in original leather. Illustrated throughout with numerous full page steel engravings as called for. Gilt embossed lettering to the title blocks on the spine and decorative design to the spines. Marbled end papers. There is an additional plate inserted to volume III on page 304. Volume I - 535pp. Volume II - 378pp; Volume III - 356pp. Light rubbing to the board edges and to the spine edges. A little patchy loss to the gilt embossed decorations to the spine. There is los of 1 cm to the tail of the prelimianry blank page of volume I and neat pencil notes to the reverse of the rear end paper. Volume II has a loosely inserted page divider, no longer attached at the head of the spine. There is an oval light stain mark of 5.5 cm x 3.5 cm to the front board of Volume III and a couple of light stain marks to the front fore edges. A few page corners have been turned, leaving a neat crease. Area of rubbing with loss of the marbled pattern to the rear end paper measuring 3.5 cm x 1 cm in size. There is some scattered light foxing to the reverse of several illustation pages and also to the margins of several pages, affecting the text on a few pages and also affecting a few of the illustrations. The books are clean and tight and make up a lovely, attractie set.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 221070
- Title
- Rural Sports ( Volumes I, II, III)
- Author
- Daniel, Rev. Wm B
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bunny & Gold
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1801
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....