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East Anglia
by Hugh Meredith
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Robert Scott, c1929. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A detailed overview of the area of East Anglia in England with numerous illustrations throughout. The first edition. In the original green cloth binding with gilt lettering. With a frontispiece, 19 full page plates and numerous monochrome sketches throughout. Collated complete. A fascinating overview of East Anglia in England, with chapters on Yarmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk. With beautiful descriptions and historical accounts, this book serves as an comprehensive, educational, guide to the area. With the previous owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper, dated 1933, and publisher's advertisements to the rear of the novel. In the original full cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine. Externally, very smart with shelf wear to the edges and bumping to the spine. Ink inscription to the front free endpaper dated 1933. Light spotting to the rear paste-down and free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just the odd spot and some light age-toning to the edges. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 830G30
- Title
- East Anglia
- Author
- Hugh Meredith
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Robert Scott
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- c1929
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- East Anglia Yarmouth Norwich Norfolk Yarmouth English history
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
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