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The House. A Portrait of Chatsworth.
by DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan. 1982 1st edition. Size 6.75 x 9.5 inches. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to top edge. Author’s signature on first blank page. Neat ink inscription to early blank page, dated 1983, with pencil notes. Else a very clean and tight copy. 232pp. With b/w and colour photographs and plans. The history of Chatsworth House and its varied fortunes over the years with a personal tour by the Duchess of the house as it is now.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89947
- Title
- The House. A Portrait of Chatsworth.
- Author
- DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan. 1982 1st edition
- Keywords
- Architecture DUCHESS, DEVONSHIRE, House, Portrait, Chatsworth, history, personal tour, photographs Architecture History Social History first edition dustwrapper, signed copy,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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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