Woodstock
by Sir Walter Scott
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1826. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1826. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Three small octavo volumes. Bound in three quarter brown calf, spines decoratively ruled in gilt and maroon leather lettering labels. Boards marbled with gilt rules around the plain edges. Pages tight but foxed, boards scuffed and bumped on corners. All three volumes have a bookplate pasted onto the front endpaper 'Thomas Heywood'. Due to the weight of the volumes they may incur extra overseas postage charges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14675
- Title
- Woodstock
- Author
- Sir Walter Scott
- Format/Binding
- Book Book Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1826
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB
Biblio member since 2016
Matlock, Derbyshire
About Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB
Scarthin Books is based in a three-storey, 2000 sq.ft. shop overlooking the millpond which powered Arkwright's world's-first cotton mill in the hamlet of Scarthin in the village of Cromford, Derbyshire on the edge of England's first National Park, the Peak District. Our ABE list comprises only some of our more valuable, fragile or esoteric stock; our main business remains selling new, second-hand and antiquarian books and music over the counter to flesh-and-blood clients. We also house a home-cooking cafe, serving vegetarian (and some vegan and gluten-free) hot and cold dishes and refreshments. The cafe also hosts meetings of the Cafe Philosophique and Conversation Cafe and regular meetings of Amnesty International and Buddhist Meditation groups, as well as occasional book launches and other gigs. With nearly 100,000 titles in stock, we have since 1974 been evolving towards what a bookshop should really be like. You will feel very much at home here. Our hours are 9-6; 10-6 on Sundays (last cafe orders 5.15)and we close only on Christmas and Boxing Days. Our website www.scarthinbooks.com is also fun.
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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