London: John Murray, 1837. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Alken, Henry. Octavo. 301 pages. Hardcover bound in 3/4 brown leather with marbled paper covered boards. All edges marbled. Binding is rubbed and soiled from handling. There is some bumping at boards, and the leather is scuffed in places. Five raised spine boards. Gilt decorations on spine. The gilt has rubbed off in places. Marbled endpapers. Handwritten inscriptions on the reverse of the second front flyleaf. A colour insignia bookplate is on the third front flyleaf, along with a handwritten inscription at the top of the page. The title page and frontispiece are quite toned. Text is foxed. There are 14 plates (including the portrait), collates complete. One of the plates is detached but present. The plates have foxing and have heavy browning about the edges. The Chase - The Melton Chase plate has had the sky portion hand coloured in blue.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 047290
Title: The Chace, The Turf, and The Road
Author: Nimrod; (Charles James Apperley)
Illustrator: Alken, Henry
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: John Murray
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1837
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Weight: 2.00 lbs
Keywords: 1837; Nimrod; Henry Alken; Travel; Leather binding; England; Rare; Plates; 19th century; Sporting; Horse; Riding; Chase; Charles James Apperley.
Bookseller catalogs: General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Travel;

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Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.

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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
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....
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...