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Hawbuck Grange: Or, The Sporting Adventures Of Thomas Scott, Esq.
by [R.S. Surtees] and H.K. Brown [Phiz] + W.T. Maud (illustrators)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJ
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Very Good HC, no DJ. Red cloth over bevel-edged boards; black and gilt stamped hunting vignette and motif on front cover and spine; blind stamped double rule frame on rear cover. Bright, clean covers; some fading of spine and spine titles and decorations, but all remain legible; small splits at spine head with light rubbing wear; tightly bound; age darkened end papers; gift inscription on front free end paper; very clean interior; leaves unopened at head edge throughout - never been read; bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown at lower inner corner. 8vo, 265 pp + 28 page publisher's adverts at rear; illustrated with 36 woodcut engravings and 9 hand colored steel plate engravings (including title page). No statement indicating this is a subscriber's edition.
Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18520
- Title
- Hawbuck Grange: Or, The Sporting Adventures Of Thomas Scott, Esq.
- Author
- [R.S. Surtees] and H.K. Brown [Phiz] + W.T. Maud (illustrators)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co; no date (Ca. 1889)
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- ENGLAND, FOX HUNTING, COUNTRY, ESTATES, HOUNDS, RURAL, GREAT BRITAIN, SPORTING LIFE, COCKNEY
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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