A Tour Through Scotland.
by Norton Hall
- Used
- Fine
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Brown calf binding with red title plate and gilt banding and lettering on the spine. Rebound. Still a well rendered book
Beriah Botfield FRS FRSE FSA FRGS (5 March 1807 – 7 August 1863) was a British Member of Parliament representing Ludlow in Shropshire as a Conservative. He was also a noted bibliographer, geologist and botanist. Beriah was a well known bibliographer who set up a private printing press at his home in Norton Hall. Among the works which he printed there was an anonymous Journal of a Tour through the Highlands of Scotland (1830). temmata Botevilliana (1843) was printed for a private collection, then much enlarged and presented to the general public in 1858, as an account of the family of Boteville or Botfield. The issue of Bibliotheca Hearniana—excerpts from the Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Hearne (1848) was afterwards reprinted in the Reliquiæ Hearnianæ (1869 ed.).
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- Bookseller
- Martin Frost (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB1628 /7
- Title
- A Tour Through Scotland.
- Author
- Norton Hall
- Format/Binding
- Leather binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1830
- Size
- 11 x17 x4cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Glossary
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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....
- 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...
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