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English Heraldry
by Charles Boutell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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NZ$25.21NZ$18.91
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About This Item
English Heraldry by Charles Boutell
Hardback, 1908, tenth edition, illustrated, published by Reeves & Turner, London, 343 pages + xxiii and 16-page publisher catalogue with unopened leaves at rear.
Octavo/8vo. Measures around 7 5/8" by 5 3/8" by 1 1/2". Red cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine. Slight discolouration to spine. Scuffing and a little marking, signs of shelf-wear, some tearing to spine, bumped and slightly torn corners. Binding reasonably firm, slight slackness, a little strained in places but otherwise good. Page edges browned, scuffed and slightly tanned. Upper page edges a little rough from the way the leaves have been separated at some point. Front pastedown has attached to it an envelope with a gift inscription (possibly from a school class to their teacher) and containing some newspaper and other cuttings related to heraldry and there are some additional newspaper cuttings on the subject. The front free endpaper contains previous owner inscriptions. Some foxing to endpapers but apart from this and the inscriptions the page surfaces clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-580
- Title
- English Heraldry
- Author
- Charles Boutell
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Tenth Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reeves & Turner
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Pages
- 343+
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
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Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Leaves
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Marginalia
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