Macmillan and Co., 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. Twenty-Ninth Edition. 508 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are rough cut. Contains fold-out map. Pages are mostly clear, with moderate tanning and foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Stickers stuck to half title page, with a pencil inscription to front free endpaper and page 508. Ex-libris present on front paste-down. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with notable bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a pronounced forward lean.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1689930292IEV
Title: The Old Regime In Canada
Author: Francis Parkman
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
Date Published: 1895

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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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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...
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....
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...