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Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations since 1819. In Two Volumes
by Sir William Gell
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Harleston, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1832. Hardback. Fair/No Jacket. 2189 4to. Half leather on marbled boards, gilt titles. All plates present, including two coloured; many of the illustrations referred to as vignettes by Gell are present as tipped-in mini-plates. Condition notes: Plates overall in very good condition, with blank leaves as guards (not tissue guards); there is a general tendency to age darkening but only one or two of the plates are significantly browned or foxed. Particular exceptions are the Portrait and frontis of Volume 1, which are detached (the latter with title page and first leaf of Contents lists), with foxing and rolled edges and the frontis of Volume 2, which is detached and badly foxed. Externally both volumes are in a poor way; spine strips have parted from rear boards, leather is very rubbed, spine strip of Volume 2 split. Volume 1 has both boards detached, text block sound apart from first few pages as noted above. Volume 2 is similar, (ie both boards detached) but only the frontis is detached with the front board; binding is strained at one point. More detailed photographs on request.
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- Bookseller
- Duck Cottage Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2351
- Title
- Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations since 1819. In Two Volumes
- Author
- Sir William Gell
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jennings and Chaplin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1832
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology and Ancient History;
- Size
- 2189 4to
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
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Harleston, Norfolk
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- 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....
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
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