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THE BRITISH HERITAGE The People, Their Crafts and Achievements As Recorded In Their Buildings And On The Face Of The Countyrside
by NA
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London, England,: Odhams Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back London, Odhams Press, 1948. First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fair Condition.16 pages of illustrations and Frontispiece in full color and over 250 photographs. Frontis: full color Constable's 'The Cornfield'. Artists whose landscape paintings are in full color are Gainsborough, Constable, Turner, Hollar, Sandby, Girtin, Crome, Cotman. Steer, Sickert, and Nevinson. These landscape paintings of the masters not only mirror the beauty of Britain but also traces the development of its buildings, its trades, tastes, and manners. It is actually quite a nice book. Bound in green full cloth, gilt titled on spine, blind-stamp structure on front. Most of the front cover is quite clean but there is mottling/fading at spine head and that corner and spine tail, also the back has whitish spots scattered on it. Edges and corners are rubbed not quite through cloth. Sewn binding is tight and solid. Ffep has prev owner brief inscription and a stamp. Interior is quite clean, no marks, no underlining. Jacket is edgeworn and has piece missing from spine head and tail, clean and bright with wrap-around illus of a village and surrounding countryside. The mylar cover goes a long way towards providing quite a nice vintage appearance. 320 pages with index. 9 x 6.25 inches. Odhams Press, London, England, 1948.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016245
- Title
- THE BRITISH HERITAGE The People, Their Crafts and Achievements As Recorded In Their Buildings And On The Face Of The Countyrside
- Author
- NA
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Odhams Press
- Place of Publication
- London, England,
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HISTORY, GREAT BRITAIN; CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS-ENGLAND; CONSTABLE, JOHN; ARTISTS-GREAT
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Great Britain;
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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...
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- "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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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