London: T. Nelson and Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1868. Hardcover. Some fading and rubbing to spine and boards. ; 169 pages. 30 in-text engravings. Red cloth boards with gilt decoration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 183 x 121mm. All page edges gilt.The prefatory material includes a memoir of Falconer by Robert Carruthers. Provenance: Hardwicke Knight, with his squirrel bookplate. Circa late 19th century New Zealand bookseller's ticket on front endpaper: "HORSBURGH / BOOKSELLER / DUNEDIN". [Seller Ref: KnightCol]; 8vo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 15190
Title: The Shipwreck: a Poem.
Author: Falconer, William; illustrated by Birket Foster
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1868
Keywords: Poetry Nautical

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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....
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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...