Watermills and Windmills
by William Coles Finch
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket as Published
- Seller
-
Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The C. W. Daniel Company . Cloth/Gilt. Good/No Jacket as Published. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Type: Book No date. Acknowledgments dated 1933, inscription to ffep dated 1940. Red cloth with gilt illustration to front board.Fading to spine. No dust jacket. Small numeric inscription to inside front cover. Inscription to ffep. Loss to top edge of ffep. Previous owner has affixed postcards and pictures of windmills to the end papers and front and rear paste downs, and to blank areas on index, verso of frontispiece, verso of title page, tribute page. (RURAL)
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- Bookseller
- Fireside Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 303030
- Title
- Watermills and Windmills
- Author
- William Coles Finch
- Format/Binding
- Cloth/Gilt
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Published
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The C. W. Daniel Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- RURAL HISTORY;
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About the Seller
Fireside Bookshop
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Stroud, Gloucestershire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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