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Fishing: Pike and Other Coarse Fish. The Badminton Library. Large Paper Edition
by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1885. First, limited edition, no. 249 of a total 250 copies of the Large Paper edition. Part of the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Externally fair, internally good. Includes the bookplate of noted book collector and Grolier Club member Frederic Robert Halsey, as well as that of Newton C. Brainard. Three quarter dark blue leather over mustard colored cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Worn with considerable rubbing to the extremities, chipping to the spine foot, hinges good, text block sound but not tight, 2 inch square darkened area to half-title and opposite blank from old newspaper clipping, a couple of other pages with clipping ghosts but mainly very faint, pages clean with no other names or markings. Well illustrated, with a couple of extra illustrations very neatly mounted in blank areas at the ends of sections, within the lines that border the text.. First, Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038193
- Title
- Fishing: Pike and Other Coarse Fish. The Badminton Library. Large Paper Edition
- Author
- H. Cholmondeley-Pennell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First, Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- SPORT FISHING ANGLING BRITISH ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Recreation, Sports and Hobbies;
Terms of Sale
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East Granby, Connecticut
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- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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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