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INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to guns and shooting
by Hawker, Lt. Col. P
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1838. Eighth edition, corrected, enlarged, and improved: With explanatory plates and wood cuts. Pp. xxvi+550(last colophon), 8 plates (the frontispiece and portrait with tissue guards), text illustrations, list of London Gunmakers, Game Laws; nineteenth century mottled calf boards with double gilt rule border and gilt edges, neatly rebacked, with the gilt lettered and decorated spine and gilt lettered red morocco title label laid on, edges of boards lightly rubbed, fore-corners worn, several small surface grazes to spine, the upper board slightly damp stained; t.e.g., others uncut; marbled endpapers; the upper hinge starting, a couple of tiny edge chips, a few leaves slightly creased, scattered (mainly light) foxing, browning and soiling; Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1838. Eighth edition. *First published in 1814. From the library of firearms collector Douglas Mills, with his business card laid on the half-title page.
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- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 141718
- Title
- INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to guns and shooting
- Author
- Hawker, Lt. Col. P
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1838
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Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
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Melbourne, Victoria
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- 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....
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