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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. [c. 1880s]. xii, 360, 4-ads, frontis, engravings to text. . HB. 8vo, orig. red cloth, with pictorial sea-bottom scene to lower two-thirds of front board, carried round to spine; SPCK in brown device to rear board; gilt title to front board (with decorative initial letters) and spine; patterned endpapers. Cloth rubbed, with minor wear, nick to head of spine; corners and fore-edge of front board bumped. Inner hinges cracked but firm. Good.. One of the most successful of Gosse's popular books. Undated reissue (first published 1845).Closest to Freeman & Wertheimer 21, but with some differences to binding..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S56422
- Title
- The Ocean
- Author
- Gosse, P.H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d. [c. 1880s]
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...