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The Age of the Saints. A Monograph of Early Christianity in Cornwall, with the legends of the Cornish Saints and an Introduction Illustrative of the Ethnology of the District
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
Truro, Josep Pollard (London), 1893-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1893 first edition, Joseph Pollard (Truro, England), xxx, 208pp., 6 x 9 inches tall x 1 inch thick. Black hardbound with gilt lettering to spine, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, fore and bottom page edges untrimmed. Copy slightly cocked. Covers badly bumped at the tips, with rubbing and edgewear. Apart from minor foxing to the prelims the interior is pristine, with many drawings - clean, bright and unmarked. ~OO~
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- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TQ-B0BK-Z4DO
- Title
- The Age of the Saints. A Monograph of Early Christianity in Cornwall, with the legends of the Cornish Saints and an Introduction Illustrative of the Ethnology of the District
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Truro, Josep Pollard (London)
- Date Published
- 1893-01-01
- Bookseller catalogs
- Catholicism;
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
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