LONDON : With 124 Illustrations
by Besant, Walter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. Full-Leather. Very Good. Detailed and interesting Local History illustrated with 124 B&W Drawings. Handsome Green Calf Full-Leather Binding with 5 Raised Bands to spine. Gilt Title on Red ground in 2nd compartment and Gilt Decoration in the others. Gilt Double Ruled Margins on front & back. All Page Edges and Endpapers Marbled. Gilt Decoration on board edges. 403 Pages, 1.2 Kilos, 9" Tall. Slight edge wear. No inscriptions except old penciled price. A little light foxing on endpapers, half-title & title pages. Only a little on a few pages elsewhere. Attractive copy. weighs 1.2 Kilos so Shipping Outside UK will be a little extra. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017801
- Title
- LONDON : With 124 Illustrations
- Author
- Besant, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/TRAVEL/ENGLISH TOWNS & COUNTIES/LOCAL HISTORY/LONDON
Terms of Sale
Cornish Books
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About the Seller
Cornish Books
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Penzance, Cornwall
About Cornish Books
Online Bookseller since 2008, in Penzance, Cornwall.We are a small family business and offer a personal service.Always in stock is a good selection of Cornish Interest Books.
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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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....