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Book Collecting - A Guide For Amateurs
by J H Slater
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
SGD 17.36SGD 13.89
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About This Item
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1892 Book. Good. Dark Blue Cloth Boards. Edition Limited to 500 Copies. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Guide to various aspects of book collecting, including anicent manuscripts, historical presses, watermarks and book restoration. This volume is No.19 in a limited edition of 500 copies and has also resided for a time in a reference library, so there are various stamps and labels present. 130pp. Gilt design and lettering to top board, gilt lettering to spine, black endpapers. Top edges gilt, rest untrimmed. Slight bumping to spine and corners, some foxing and age-toning to edges. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016077
- Title
- Book Collecting - A Guide For Amateurs
- Author
- J H Slater
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Edition Limited to 500 Copies
- Publisher
- Swan Sonnenschein & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
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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...
- 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....
- 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...