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The History of the Gun Powder Plot: With Several Historical Circumstances Prior to That Event, Connecting the Plots of the Roman Catholics to Re-estabilsh Popery in this Kingdom. (Gunpowder)
by Caulfield, James
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Vernor and Hood, 1804. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 94 pages. Includes 10 copperplate engravings (full-page). Hardcover bound in half leather with marbled cover boards. Gilt designs on the spine. The binding is worn and bumped. There is heavy chipping to the spine, including on the label, which is half missing, and on the rear hinge about 3/4 the way down. Outer edges of the text block are speckled and the upper edge is darkened. Inner hinges are secure. There is light foxing to the title page and to the frontispiece, as well as to other illustrations pages. The text is otherwise toned but clean and sound.
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- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051430
- Title
- The History of the Gun Powder Plot: With Several Historical Circumstances Prior to That Event, Connecting the Plots of the Roman Catholics to Re-estabilsh Popery in this Kingdom. (Gunpowder)
- Author
- Caulfield, James
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Vernor and Hood
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1804
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1804; James Caulfield; Gun Powder Plot; Gunpowder Plot; Protestant; Roman Catholics; British History; European History; Fine Bindings; Leather Bindings; 19th Century; Rare; Antiquarian; Collectible; Illustrated; Great Britain; England; English.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Great Britain;
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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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