Leicestershire Maps A Brief Survey
by B.L.Gimson
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edgar Backus, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. No Edition Remarks. 40 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and maps and frontispiece. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages, illustrations and maps with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to half title page and last page textblock. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1634321914BUF
- Title
- Leicestershire Maps A Brief Survey
- Author
- B.L.Gimson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Edgar Backus
- Date Published
- 1947
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...