The Lake of Geneva
by Gribble, Francis and J. Hardwicke Lewis and May Hardwicke Lewis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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Great Leighs, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1909, 1st (& only) edition. Half leather binding with vellum boards. Five raised bands to spine, gilt lettering to compartments two and three, elaborate gilt decoration to other compartments. Teg. Binding by Riviere and Son for the Army and Navy. 8.75ins x 6.5ins, marbled endpapers, x, [ii], 360pp plus 60 tissue guarded colour plates and a folding map. Gift inscription, dated 1920, takes up most of first blank page. Scattered foxing to text pages with first and last few pages being the worst affected. This is scarcest of the A&C Black twenty shilling series as only 1000 copies were printed instead of the more usual print run of 3000 copies. A VG variant binding.
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- Missing Books (GB)
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- Title
- The Lake of Geneva
- Author
- Gribble, Francis and J. Hardwicke Lewis and May Hardwicke Lewis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...