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Life of King Henry the Eighth
by TYTLER, PATRICK FRASER
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1837. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 12mo. - Second Edition - Bound in QuarterlLeather bound w/ marbled paper boards - Four gilt decorated raised bands to spine which also has a maroon litle label - Ex Libris sticker of John Wilson Fitzpatrick to front pastedown w/ the signature of Augusta Fitzpatrick to a blank preliminary page - Boards a little worn and edges rubbed w/ corners bumped - Edges of text block heavily tanned - Endpapers toned and stained to edges - Front hinge very slightly beached but not open - Some minor moisture staining (now dry) to preliminary pages - Content lightly tanned and foxed throughout - Book ow/ solid, clean and bright - 470 pages
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- Bookseller
- Green Ink Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 635059
- Title
- Life of King Henry the Eighth
- Author
- TYTLER, PATRICK FRASER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Date Published
- 1837
- Size
- No dustwrapper
Terms of Sale
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Hay on Wye, Powys
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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