The Cresset Press, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1956. Second Impression. 407 pages. Laminated dust jacket over green cloth with gilt. Black and white photographic plates throughout and similar frontispiece. Pages bright and clean with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Pen annotations to front free endpaper and ex libris plate to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Minor corner fraying and edge wear to boards and spine mildly crushed and frayed top and bottom. Spine tanned. Surfaces with some small marks and hole in back board. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping, some foxing and marking. A tape repair to spine which is sunned.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1692895610LEE
Title: Sir Robert Walpole : the Making of a Statesman
Author: J.H. Plumb
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Cresset Press
Date Published: 1956

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Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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....
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...