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WELLINGTON SOLDIER AND STATESMAN AND THE REVIVAL OF THE MILITARY POWER OF ENGLAND [Prize- Binding]
by William O'Connor Morris
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 398, numerous illustrations, foldout colour maps of India Spain and Portugal, portrait frontispiece plate with tissue guard. Privately bound polished calf prize binding for Malvern Collegel, gilt vignette to the front board, gilt decoration to the spine and boards, some cracking to leather on the front hinge, secure. Contents clean and tight, marbled endpapers and matching marbled fore-edges, all plates clean. A very good attractive copy..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036619
- Title
- WELLINGTON SOLDIER AND STATESMAN AND THE REVIVAL OF THE MILITARY POWER OF ENGLAND [Prize- Binding]
- Author
- William O'Connor Morris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bindings - Fine;
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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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