London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. Blue cloth hardback has gilt to front cover and spine. Contains nearly 100 black and white illustrations, Index to Plates and Owners and Index to Text. FO stamp to FFEP but no other marks. Binding is tight with a slight indentation at top of front cover and light spotting and speckling to spine with very minor wear to cover edges. Unclipped DJ, now in Brodart is in poor condition with numerous tears and wear to edges. Digital photos available. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 178 pages .

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Bookseller: The Book Lady (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 121
Title: Scottish Gold and Silver Work
Author: Finlay, Ian
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Poor dust jacket
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1956
Keywords: Antiques And Collectibles, Antique Silver
Bookseller catalogs: Antiques;

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Brodart: Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. 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...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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...