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The Jacobean Age
by David Mathew
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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NZ$25.28NZ$18.95
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About This Item
The Jacobean Age by David Mathew
Hardback, 1938, first edition, illustrated, published by Longmans, Green and Co., London, 13 + 354 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 8 7/8" by 6" by 1 1/2". No dust jacket. Orange-brown cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine. Some marking and scuffing to binding but reasonably clean, with a little discolouration to spine. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges. Book has forward tilt. A little slackness to binding but contents reasonably tight. Page edges browned, scuffed, a little foxed and a bit marked. Minor foxing and marking to endpapers, occasional light foxing throughout and the mark to page surfaces but otherwise clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-576
- Title
- The Jacobean Age
- Author
- David Mathew
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Pages
- 367
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marginalia
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- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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