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Shells and Their Inmates
by Anonymous
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Religious Tract Society, London. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. [Anonymous.] Shells and Their Inmates, London: Religious Tract Society, undated (mid- to late 19th century). 16mo (about 11x14cm), priority unknown here, pp. xii, 196, prize binding from Wesley College of Sheffield, full polished light brown calf with red calf label and four raised bands to spine, gilt image of the school front and back inside gilt borders with highlighted lettering, marbled edges, extensive illustration including 1 color plate, book plate on front paste-down honors A. Preston for music achievement, signed by the governor and the headmaster. Condition of this book Front board is loose, covers moderately worn, preliminary leaves foxed. Size: 16mo (very small). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Front board is detached. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; England; 19th century; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55484. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55484
- Title
- Shells and Their Inmates
- Author
- Anonymous
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Full Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Religious Tract Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Antiques & Collectibles; England; 19th century; Animals & Birds. Unbranded Anonymous Shells and Their Inmates
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2007
Warwick, New York
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Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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