The Life of Nelson
by Robert Southey
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Bickers and Son, 1909. Hardcover. Good. Half leather prize binding of Poet Southey's popular biography of Horatio Nelson, first published in 1813. With Sherborne School crest and logo to front and rear covers. Top edge gilt. Raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers. Tipped in frontispiece. Prize plate to front pastedown. Rubbing and light marking to leather. Toning to spine. Mild foxing to fore-edge. Foxing to front matter but contents otherwise clean and binding sound. Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004456
- Title
- The Life of Nelson
- Author
- Robert Southey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bickers and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- leather_binding, naval, nacy, trafalgar, ships, boats, admiral, military, biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bindings;
Terms of Sale
AJ Scruffles
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About the Seller
AJ Scruffles
Biblio member since 2010
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
About AJ Scruffles
AJ Scruffles is an online bookseller, based between Epping and Harlow. Our website also hosts an online magazine with reviews, articles and humour
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....