The Mission: Or, Scenes in Africa. Written For Young People. In Two Volumes.
by MARRYAT, CAPTAIN:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845 (1st.).. 2 volumes. Hardback, 7 x 4.5 inches. Quarter bound in dark green morocco leather and marbled paper boards. Gilt line edging to boards. With raised banding, decorative gilt paneling and lettering to spines. Marbled endpapers. All page edges gilt. In very good conditions. Some minor fading to spines, corners of boards rubbed, some minor rubbing to ends and edges of spines. Bookseller labels to endpapers “Charles Hutt, London.” Endpapers clean and bright, no penned inscriptions. Some minor handling marks to pages, some small stains to margins on a few pages in v.2. Else inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a lovely clean and tight set. 2 volumes. 328 & 374pp. Illustrated with 2 B&W frontis plates and a B&W sketch map at p1.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83907
- Title
- The Mission: Or, Scenes in Africa. Written For Young People. In Two Volumes.
- Author
- MARRYAT, CAPTAIN:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845 (1st.).
- Keywords
- Literature literature, fine binding, leather, marryat, The Mission, Scenes in Africa, 2 volumes, 1845, Longmans, illustrated
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
Biblio member since 2016
Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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.