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Wedgewood (The Collectors Library)
by Gorely, Jean
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY, USA: Gramercy Publishing, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 128pp; 97 black and white in-text photographs and illustrations. Turquoise cloth-covered boards, black titles on spine. 8vo. Very light rubbing to corners and spine ends; two small black marks on rear board. Top text block edge starting to fox. Free endpapers lightly tanned and foxing. Internally a neat, clean, bright and tight volume. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, small closed tears at spine ends, mirrors book condition, bookseller's label front flap. Collectors with find this book packed full of the author's knowledge from years of study on the subject. Here is the story of Wedgewood and the Eighteenth-Century World, the Pouring and Drinking Vessels, Tea Cadies, Cameos and Intaglios, Vases, Lamps, Candleholders and much more.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023150
- Title
- Wedgewood (The Collectors Library)
- Author
- Gorely, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gramercy Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- China, Porecelian
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
Biblio member since 2021
nr Canterbury, Kent
About BookAddiction
Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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