Hardwicke & Bogue, 1878. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1878. 14th Edition. 130 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. B&W and colour illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Both hinges cracked, thus the boards are slack. Presentation plate to front paste down. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Splitting (approx. 3cm) to spine ends.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1704806092IEV
Title: Half-Hours With The Microscope
Author: Edwin Lankester
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Hardwicke & Bogue
Date Published: 1878

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...