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A History of British Birds Volume I
by William Yarrell
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Van Voorst, 1874. Hardcover. Good. 1874. Revised and Enlarged Edition. 646 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound green leather with marbled paper covered boards. Contains ex-libris plate. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Notable scuffing to edges. Book has forward lean. Notable scuffing and peeling to leather.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1715937045CAB
- Title
- A History of British Birds Volume I
- Author
- William Yarrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Van Voorst
- Date Published
- 1874
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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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Half Bound
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...