Birket Foster R.W.S.. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
by CUNDALL H.M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A&C Black,, [1906, 1930]. 8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 73 coloured plates, 20 full-page plates in monochrome (a number full-page) and 58 illustrations in the text, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; original decorative blue cloth, upper board blocked and lattered in yellow and white, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end, and the trade ticket of Burlington of Whitehaven on front paste-down. Published in September 1930 but retaining the date (1906) of the first edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29132
- Title
- Birket Foster R.W.S.. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
- Author
- CUNDALL H.M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A&C Black,
- Date Published
- [1906, 1930]
- Keywords
- a&c black, black colour plate books, illustrated books, birket foster, cundall
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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
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- 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...