The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte, &c. Illustrated by Engravings of it's most Striking and Memorable Incidents
by Churchill, T. O
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, 1808. Leather Bound. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. viii, 100 pages. The binding of the book measures 14 inches tall by 11 1/2 inches wide. Hardcover bound in early half red morocco with grey paper-covered boards. The binding is worn and bumped but sound. Some damping on the exterior of the front cover with part of the leather pushed back near the spine. Corners bumped and abraded. There is a dig in the leather on the spine near the headcap. Hinges rubbed but holding. A bookplate on the front pastedown is of "George E. R. Dalton" (George Edward Robert Dalton, Master Mariner) and is hand-dated 1906. The bookplate has a crest with a left-facing standing lion topped by a helmet and crown with the top of another left-facing lion above that. Crest motto reads, "Noli Irretare Leonem" (meaning "Don't Disturb the Lion"). This volume lacks the frontis portrait, but it does have the facsimile letter, 10 full-page engraved plates, and 2 folding (double-page) plates as called for in the Instructions to the Binder at the rear. The text has some foxing, especially near the plates. The double-page plate of Nelson's Funeral Car has a split at the bottom of the fold (split remaining in the margin).
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048976
- Title
- The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte, &c. Illustrated by Engravings of it's most Striking and Memorable Incidents
- Author
- Churchill, T. O
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1808
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 5.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1808; T. O. Churchill; Lord Viscount Nelson; Maritime; Navy; Naval; Captain; Admiral; British; English; Lord Nelson; Commander; Ships; 19th Century; Copperplate Engravings; Folio; Rare; Collectible.
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- General Antiquarian & Rare; Art;
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Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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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....
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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