A Seventeenth Century Country Gentleman (Sir Francis Throckmorton, 1640-80)
by E.A.B. Barnard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
W. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge, 1948., 1944. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1944. First Edition. 99 pages. Beige dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Light thumb-marking present. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Previous owner's plate to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Stained marking to boards, with some discolouration to cloth. Clipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Water staining to rear panel. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Foxing and scuffing to surfaces.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1651146682ADA
- Title
- A Seventeenth Century Country Gentleman (Sir Francis Throckmorton, 1640-80)
- Author
- E.A.B. Barnard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge, 1948.
- Date Published
- 1944
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...