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THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND WALES IN A COLLECTION OF SELECT VIEWS.
by Angus, W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Islington: W. Angus, Gwynne's Buildings. Very Good. 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Black pebbled leather spine & corners over marbled boards. Spine has 5 bands with double gilt lines & gilt lettering. Unpaginated: title leaf, contents leaf, then 63 leaves of engraved plates & facing leaves of text. FIrst issued in 1787 in parts, this is the 1815 reissue with the fifteen extra engravings. Internal hinges & text tight & intact. Light foxing throughout. Edges rubbed. Slight loss at spine top. Front cover starting 1" at top & bottom with covers firmly attached. 1/4" dampstain at bottom margin of first few pages. Sticker: "Bound by P. Low, Devonshire St. , Boston". Signaure of early owner dated 1887. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17627
- Title
- THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND WALES IN A COLLECTION OF SELECT VIEWS.
- Author
- Angus, W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W. Angus, Gwynne's Buildings
- Place of Publication
- Islington
- Date Published
- 1815
- Keywords
- England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; England; Art;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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
- ...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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