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A Tour Round England. 2 Volume Set
by Thornbury, Walter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1870. First Edition First Printing . Leather Bound. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mos. 326; 310 pages, indexed. Hardcovers bound in 3/4 red calf with raised bands and red marbled paper-covered board. All edges marbled. Raised bands on the spines, which have red and green leather labels. Elaborate gilt rules and tooling on the spines. The bindings show light to moderate rubbing and wear. A sound set, although there is a slight crack in the gutter between pages 62 and 63. Each volume has a tipped-in photo as a frontis. Text is a little toned and has some occasional pencil markings in the margins. An attractive set.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048278
- Title
- A Tour Round England. 2 Volume Set
- Author
- Thornbury, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hurst and Blackett, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1870
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 3.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1870; Walter Thornbury; England; English; Great Britain; Travel; Tour; Rare; Collectible; Leather Bindings; Fine Bindings; Tipped in Photos; Photographs; Photography.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Great Britain;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
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