The Crown of Wild Olive - Four Lectures on Industry and War
by John Ruskin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG-/N/a
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1886. Four of Ruskin's lectures with the fourth - "The future of England" - added in this edition to the three in the original 1866 edition. Olive covers with gilt, 250pp. Covers have modest wear to extrems, particularly head and foot of spine with a couple of small, light marks. Rough-cut page edges dusty. Small bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. Foxing to ffep and rfep, otherwise internally clean and tight. Ref:114884. First Thus (?). Buckram. VG-/N/a. 13x19cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004884
- Title
- The Crown of Wild Olive - Four Lectures on Industry and War
- Author
- John Ruskin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- N/a
- Edition
- First Thus (?)
- Publisher
- George Allen
- Place of Publication
- Orpington, Kent
- Date Published
- 1886
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- 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...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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...