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Cranford
by Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan,. Hardback. xxx, 298pp. Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Illustrated throughout by Hugh Thomson with frontis, with tissue guard, and numerous further integral drawings. The best known and one of the most collectible titles from the attractive Macmillan's 'Cranford' series. Green cloth with very detailed and pretty gilt flowering plant and tea tray design to design to front and more gilt flowers to spine is has a faint mark to front and more prominent light marks to back which has been splashed at some point. There is also a tiny area of exposed board to the back. Gilt decorations are generally bright. All edges gilt. Some slight rubbing to spine edges and spine ends. Faint scattered foxing to prelims. Binding is tight and square. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1891.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22637
- Title
- Cranford
- Author
- Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- Antiquarian,Hugh Thomson,Elizabeth Gaskell,Illustrated cloth binding,, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
Biblio member since 2005
Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
We are a member of the PBFA and ibooknet -www.ibooknet.co.uk Our specialisms are academic books particularly literary criticism, literary biography, literary texts and literary and critical theory, history, plus some philosophy, psychology, politics and religion. We also stock local history books, mainly on Yorkshire. We also stock children's literature. We have a small general stock in the wider academic arts and humanities.
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- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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