Scotland's Yesterday
by William Wallace
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Sensitive series of sketches of life behind-the-scenes in the Scotland of the 19th century and earlier. Established from historical articles in the Daily Herald. Includes a retired soldier, a lady's maid and a 'moral force'. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Decorated end-papers. Toning to spine. Some light foxing to half title but contents otherwise clean and binding tight. Very good.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004252
- Title
- Scotland's Yesterday
- Author
- William Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- history, vignettes, character, characters, peasant, town, village, east scotland, service,
Terms of Sale
AJ Scruffles
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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:
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....