Books in Manuscript : a Short Introduction to Their Study and Use, with a Chapter on Records
by MADAN, FALCONER
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. - Corners bumped and red cloth covers are rubbed and unevenly faded - Minor fraying to head and tail of spine which is slightly cocked - Edges of text block and endpapers toned and foxed - Light foxing throughout - One plate loose - Book ow/ solid and clean - xv, 188 pages
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 619537
- Title
- Books in Manuscript : a Short Introduction to Their Study and Use, with a Chapter on Records
- Author
- MADAN, FALCONER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Date Published
- 1893
- Size
- No dustwrapper
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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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