The Talisman, A Tale Of The Crusaders
by Sir Walter Scott
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Walter Scott Publishing, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 380 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt text block edges. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Presentation plate to front paste down. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing and marking to boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1663159307LSA
- Title
- The Talisman, A Tale Of The Crusaders
- Author
- Sir Walter Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Walter Scott Publishing
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...