Among the Maoris, or Daybreak in New Zealand, a Record of the Labours of Samuel Marsden, Bishop Selwyn and others.
by Jesse Page:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: S W Partridge, no date [c. 1894]. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 160pp, 16pp catalogue. Frontispiece, plates and text illustrations. Original illustrated blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block, gift inscription (dated 1897), binding bright. Overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Undated; JISC gives a date of 1894.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66038
- Title
- Among the Maoris, or Daybreak in New Zealand, a Record of the Labours of Samuel Marsden, Bishop Selwyn and others.
- Author
- Jesse Page:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: S W Partridge, no date [c. 1894].
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
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Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...