London: George Philip & Son. Poor with no dust jacket. (1882). Hardcover. Rear board detached. Spine cloth very worn and peeling away from spine along upper half of rear joint. 1/4" missing to cloth at tail of spine. Moderate foxing. Creasing to the first folding map. ; "Cheap Edition". No date (preface dated 1882). xiv, 289 pages + 3 autotype photographic plates + 31 in-text woodcut illustrations + 2 folding colour maps. Brown cloth boards with gilt illustration on frontboard. The autotype frontispiece plate of the Cathedral of Curtea D'Ardges occurs after the title page, rather than facing it. "There is no country in Europe which at the present time possesses greater interest for Englishmen than does the Kingdom of Roumania, and there is none with whose present state and past history, nay, with whose very geographical position, they are less familiar." - from the preface.; 8vo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7047
Title: Roumania Past and Present
Author: Samuelson, James
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Poor with no dust jacket
Publisher: George Philip & Son
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: (1882)

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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...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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....