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Church Services including The Book of Common Prayer, Proper Lessons to be Read at Morning and Evening Prayer and The New Testament
by No Author Stated
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1867. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1867. No Edition Stated. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Quarter bound brown leather spine with metal framed vellum covered boards. Metal clasp to fore edge with gilded text block edges. Title page to New Testament is missing. Loss of front free endpaper. Pencil note to rear endpapers with occasional annotations & marginalia to some pages. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate tarnishing to metal and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing & scuffing to spine. Gilt lettering has darkened. Noticeable tanning all over.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1672825609MEP
- Title
- Church Services including The Book of Common Prayer, Proper Lessons to be Read at Morning and Evening Prayer and The New Testament
- Author
- No Author Stated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode
- Date Published
- 1867
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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