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Shire And Provinces Illustrated by Lionel Edwards. First Edition.
by SABRETACHE:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, (Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY) 1926 1st. Large hardback, approx 14 x 11 inches. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Beveled edges. In very good condition. Some rubbing to cloth on edges and corners of spine and boards. Endpapers clean, no previous owners marks or inscriptions. Some minor tanning to pages, with some occasional minor handling/thumb marks to edges. Page edges rough/uncut. Tissue guards tanned and mildly foxed. Minor tear to edge of guard at frontis. Plates all remain clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 195pp. Illustrated with 16 colour mounted plates, and with 29 smaller B&W sketches within text. With decorative coloured letterpieces.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94948
- Title
- Shire And Provinces Illustrated by Lionel Edwards. First Edition.
- Author
- SABRETACHE:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, (Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY) 1926 1st
- Keywords
- Sports & Pastimes SABRETACHE, Shire And Provinces, Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1926 1st, first edition, Illustrated, colour plates, hunting, riding, hounds, chase,
Terms of Sale
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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
The Antique Map & Bookshop
Biblio member since 2016
Dorchester, Dorset
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:
- 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.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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....
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