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The Life and Times of Cavour [2 volumes].
by William Roscoe Thayer:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Constable & co, 1911. First edition, complete in two hardback volumes. 8vo (23cm by 15cm), xvi, 604pp; ix, 562pp. 51 plates and maps (some folding). Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front boards and the spines, top edges gilt. Bindings lightly rubbed, light bumping to the corners of the boards, preliminary pages lightly foxed, contents VG. Overall, this set is in good to very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32918
- Title
- The Life and Times of Cavour [2 volumes].
- Author
- William Roscoe Thayer:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Constable & co, 1911.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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...