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The Society Of Friends In The Nineteenth Century: Vol. II
by William Hodgson
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Smith, English & Co., 1876. Hardcover. Good. 1876. No Edition Remarks. 441 pages. No dust jacket. Vol. II. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Membership plate and pencil inscription on front paste-down, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with slight bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a subtle forward lean. Label on spine.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1690202958TMB
- Title
- The Society Of Friends In The Nineteenth Century: Vol. II
- Author
- William Hodgson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Smith, English & Co.
- Date Published
- 1876
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a 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...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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