United Kingdom: Archibald Constable. Fair. 1901. Hardcover. A 1901 1st edition hardcover in good reading condition without dustwrapper (if issued) in rubbed black boards with bright 3 colour red Tudor rose motif and gilt lettering bumped/rubbed to the spine ends/corners, faded spine. Inside an attractive owner's plate on the front pastedown, tanned occasionally foxed pages very tanned and foxed to the rough-cut text-block edges. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 317 pages .

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Bookseller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 32545
Title: NEW CANTERBURY TALES
Author: Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Publisher: Archibald Constable
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: 1901
Keywords: Fiction, Literature
Bookseller catalogs: General Fiction; Literature;

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Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016

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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...
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....
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...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...