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The Story of Canterbury
by G.R.Stirling Taylor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.; 1912. (Mediaeval Town Series). Hardcover. No dust cover. Previous library book. Illustrated by Katherine Kimball. Light blue cloth covered boards with gilt detailing to front and spine. Very, very slight forward lean. Corners bumped and rubbed. Book plate to first paste down presented by Miss Katherine Kimball- some writing to top of page. SIGNED by the illustrator Katherine Kimball on FFEP from Paris, dated 1912. FFEP and RFEP tanned. Sepia portrait of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury as frontispiece, with tissue covering. List of illustrations. Pull out plan of Canterbury with embossed stamp from Bath Public Reference Library. Other pullouts present. Slight tear to map. Embossed Bath Public Reference Library stamps throughout. Gilt top edge to text block. A beautiful book.
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- Book Attic
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0104849
- Title
- The Story of Canterbury
- Author
- G.R.Stirling Taylor
- Illustrator
- Katherine Kimball
- Format/Binding
- Hbk.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Pages
- 390 pp.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
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