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JORROCK'S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES; THE HUNTING, SHOOTING, RACING, DRIVING, SAILING, EATING, ECCENTRIC AND EXTRAVAGANT EXPLOITS OF THAT RENOWNED SPORTING CITIZEN MR. JOHN JORRICKS
by SURTEES, R.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light Edgewear./No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Front cover with two crossed fox tails. Spine lettered in gilt. A total of 31 full-page plates, including color frontispiece and color illustrated title-page. A plates are protected by captioned tissue-guards. Many of the plates are in color. Artists are H Alken, Phiz, and W. Heath. Although not dated, the book was printed circa 1900. This is a reprint of the second edition of 1843, the first edition was published in 1838. Plates and text are crisp and clean. 272pp.. Later Edition. Green Cloth. Light Edgewear./No Dust Jacket. Super Royal Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015297
- Title
- JORROCK'S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES; THE HUNTING, SHOOTING, RACING, DRIVING, SAILING, EATING, ECCENTRIC AND EXTRAVAGANT EXPLOITS OF THAT RENOWNED SPORTING CITIZEN MR. JOHN JORRICKS
- Author
- SURTEES, R.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edgewear.
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- Super Royal Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sporting, Hunting, Shooting
- Bookseller catalogs
- New Fox-Hunting;
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
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.
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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