From Howard to Nelson: Twelve Sailors
by John Knox Laughton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Lawrence and Bullen. 1st ed. 476pp. Full blue leather with five raised bands to spine, elaborate gilt decoration to spine with brown leather title label, gilt borders to covers and ribbed gilt fore edges, striking blue marbled feps and all page edges marbled, tissue-guard at frontis. Good copy, covers rubbed and worn at edges, spine and rear cover partially sunned, foxing to prelims, period ink name to verso ffep, otherwise internally very good . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1899.
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- Bookseller
- Object Relations, IOBA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021665
- Title
- From Howard to Nelson: Twelve Sailors
- Author
- John Knox Laughton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Lawrence and Bullen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Pages
- 476
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime;
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....