A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by Phiz. HANDSOMELY BOUND IN HALF CALF GILT.
by DICKENS, Charles
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chapman & Hall. London. 1901. Chapman & Hall. 1901. Vol. II of The Authentic Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens. Handsomely bound in half aqua-blue calf, gilt, sunned to brown to spines. Marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge of pages gilt. Coloured frontis., vignette title and 14 plates, all with captioned tissue guards. Prelims and outer edges of pages foxed, spine and edges of boards rubbed otherwise a clean and sound copy.
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- Bookseller
- Addyman Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100002
- Title
- A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by Phiz. HANDSOMELY BOUND IN HALF CALF GILT.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- Chapman & Hall. London. 1901
- Keywords
- FICTION dickens leather binding
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About the Seller
Addyman Books
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
About Addyman Books
Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
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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...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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