Antique Collectors' Club 1989. Quarto, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & decorattion to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 467pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light staining to extrems, prev. ownership name & address in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine & edges, sl chafing)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 285570
Title: The Longcase Clock
Author: ROBINSON, TOM
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club 1989
Keywords: clocks antiques reference longcase grandfather illustrated mechanisms mechanics horology

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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....
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...