Wild Sports & Natural History Of The Highlands
by St John Charles:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1st Edition thus, T.N. Foulis, London, 1919 28 tipped-in colour plates and 11 black & white plates by G. Denholm Armour and Edwin Alexander, all tissue-guarded; 21 text illustrations (some duplicates); 10 page Preface, and Notes, by Sir Herbert Maxwell; Hardback: full cream vellum decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, quarto; Prelims, frontispiece and preface bound in twice, text partly unopened; Boards a little bowed, vellum slightly rubbed in places, previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper, still a near fine copy of a most handsome book.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfare (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7418
- Title
- Wild Sports & Natural History Of The Highlands
- Author
- St John Charles:
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- 1st Edition thus, T.N. Foulis, London, 1919
- Keywords
- SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS G. DENHOLM ARMOUR EDWIN ALEXANDER FIELD SPORTS
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Ambleside, Cumbria
About Bookfare
Established 1977. Having run shops in Edinburgh and Windermere for twenty-five years, Bookfare is now postal business only.
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- Fine
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- 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...
- G
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...