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Hampshire
by Ball, Wilfrid (Painted by) Varley, Rev Telford (Described by)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition: Hard Back. Very good pictorial boards sage green background decorated with a floral pattern of pink roses and lime green leaves to the front board, this forms a rectangular shape around which the titles and credits are printed in black, slightly sunned spine, gilt titles to spine beneath which are three pink stylised roses, closed page edges are uncut and slightly foxed, top edge gilt, smart book plate of a previous owner fixed to front paste-down Thomas Matheson Foster, hand written dedication to front endpaper 'From Walker Sept '50.' condtents in good condition, some foxing to preliminaries, pages are mainly unmarked, tissue protected colour plates by Wilfrid Ball. Beautiful water colour paintings in his own particular style 316 pages including index, 75 Illustrations and a fold-out sketch map at the end of the volume. This is a large heavy book. Size 9.00 x 6.75 x 1.75 inches approx. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Hampshire
- Author
- Ball, Wilfrid (Painted by) Varley, Rev Telford (Described by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- London, Adam & Charles Black, 1909
- Keywords
- Hampshire, Wilfrid Ball, Water Colours By Wilfrid Ball, Art, Topography
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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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