History Of British Costume.
by Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London: Charles Knight. Good+. 1834. Hardcover. Lower spine corner of rear board banged, some staining in top margin of first and last half doxen leaves, else a bright tight copy. ; Library of Entertaining Knowledge; 12mo; xx, 376 pages; Publisher's blind stamped cloth, spine gilt, aeg. .
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- Bookseller
- Janet & Henry Hurley (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50943
- Title
- History Of British Costume.
- Author
- Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- Charles Knight
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1834
- Keywords
- Britain, Costume, Clothing, Cloth Binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Britain;
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About the Seller
Janet & Henry Hurley
Biblio member since 2006
Westmoreland, New Hampshire
About Janet & Henry Hurley
Hurley Books was established by my father, Henry Hurley, in 1966. We have been shipping books through the mail for over 40 years with over 200 catalogs having been issued. Our bookshop contains well over 50,000 volumes with 17,000 +/- currently listed on Biblio.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...