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EARLY GLASGOW A History of the City of Glasgow from the Earliest Times to the Year 1611.
by Marwick, Sir James D.; Renwick, Robert, (ed.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Pp. xii, 357 pages; 2 folding plans, black and white plates. Original green cloth binding with gilt titling to the spine, very good a little marked and rubbed. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Contents clean and tight, pencil signature of previous owner to the front end paper otherwise no inscriptions, spotting to page edges, end-papers a little browned. A very good copy..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037155
- Title
- EARLY GLASGOW A History of the City of Glasgow from the Earliest Times to the Year 1611.
- Author
- Marwick, Sir James D.; Renwick, Robert, (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James Maclehose and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1911
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Topography and Travel - British;
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Loe Books
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Loe Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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