Etching & Etchers
by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bound in brown cloth with gilt illustratoins on black background on the front and the spine. Some rubbing, some light wear at corners and spine ends but remaining neat and robust. Gilt along top closed page edge, other edges a little browned. Hinge and text block sound. No book plates or inscriptions. Pages smooth and clean. 12 plates as issued, beautiful etching plates each with a printed (descriptive) tissue-guard. These plates have a few spots to the outer edges (different paper to the text pages). An attractive book. May incur additional postage charges overseas.
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Details
- Bookseller
- David's Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034082
- Title
- Etching & Etchers
- Author
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Terms of Sale
David's Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
David's Bookshop
Biblio member since 2022
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
About David's Bookshop
Open since 1963, David's Bookshop & Music Shop are located in two linked shops in Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City, only a few minutes walk from Morrisons supermarket, the railway station and Letchworth Shopping Centre. There is ample parking nearby. As the world's first Garden City, Letchworth has much to offer visitors. We stock books and guides about Letchworth's past and present. At the Bookshop you will find a comprehensive range of fiction, non-fiction, text books, maps and best-sellers in stock. Travellers, walkers, computer users and local historians are especially well catered for. We can supply any book in print and there are always many titles on special offer. The book collector - or second-hand browser - can check out a growing selection of our 15,000 second-hand and antiquarian books available for purchase through the internet. If you have good quality books to sell - bring them in for a quick appraisal and a fair offer. You can rely upon our staff's advice who really know about books. Contact us online at www.davids-bookshops.co.uk.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.