The tourist in France [Royal 8vo edition].
by Roscoe, Thomas, illustrated by J D Harding:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1834. First edition. Royal 8vo, title, 280pp, 6pp adverts. 25 plates. Half green morocco, marbled paper-covered boards, gilt titling and elaborate gilt tooling to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Binding rubbed at edges, plates foxed, front hinge repaired, else a near-VG copy. The plates are printed on India paper and are (presumably) proof impressions, as was usually the case in this series. There are no pages between the title page and page 1; if there was originally a list of the plates, it is now missing.
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- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2920
- Title
- The tourist in France [Royal 8vo edition].
- Author
- Roscoe, Thomas, illustrated by J D Harding:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1834.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
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About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Foxed
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Spine
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- 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...
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