The Vintner's Company, Their Muniments, Plate, and eminent Members, with some account of The Ward of Vintry. Revised and Edited by Thomas Milbourn
by VINTNER'S COMPANY. MILBOURN (Thomas):
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[London], Printed for the Vintners' Company, for Private Circulation, 1888. 4to, 260 x 192 mms., pp. [iv], 136, engraved frontispiece, 3 other plates, contemporary cream buckram, gilt spine, red morocco label; ex-library, from the Guildhall Library London, with its bookplate (overstamped "withdrawn") on the front paste-down end-paper and several other ownership stamps, pp. 9 - 28 printed on poorer quality paper, now fading, small piece torn from lower margin of E2.
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- Seller
- John Price Antiquarian Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Vintner's Company, Their Muniments, Plate, and eminent Members, with some account of The Ward of Vintry. Revised and Edited by Thomas Milbourn
- Author
- VINTNER'S COMPANY. MILBOURN (Thomas):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [London], Printed for the Vintners' Company, for Private Circulation, 1888
- Keywords
- wine History prose
- Bookseller catalogs
- wine;
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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