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EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A HUNTSMAN
by SMITH, THOMAS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Minor Wear and Soiling Only/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Whittaker and Company, 1838. Covers are very lightly worn at corners, with some light spotting. See photos. Covers with French fillet gilt borders. Spine elaborately designed in floral patterns, with six panels and red leather spine label. Top edge gilt. Book-plate of Reginjald Bernhard Loder on front paste-down. He lived from 1864-1931 and served as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire. A note from the British Field Sports Society laid-in with a brief biography of the author. The book was bound by Riviere and Sons (signed binding). Collated complete with six plates, two of which are fold-out plans, sepia-tone frontispiece. There are also five engraved chapter heads. 230pp. with 16pp. of advertisements at the conclusion. Errata slip is tipped-in. Thomas Smith (1790-1878) was Master of Hounds at Craven and Hambleton. Riding his famous horse, The General, he was renowned as feerless and inexhaustible in the Hunt.. First Edition. Full Butterscotch Smooth Calf. Minor Wear and Soiling Only/No Dust Jacket. Crown Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015291
- Title
- EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A HUNTSMAN
- Author
- SMITH, THOMAS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Wear and Soiling Only
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Whittaker and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1838
- Size
- Crown Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Hunting, Fox Hunting, Fine Binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- New Fox-Hunting;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- 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....
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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