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The Queen's House, Greenwich. Being the Fourteenth Monograph of the London Survey Committee.
by GEORGE H.CHETTLE
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Trustees of The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, by arrangement with the London Survey Committee, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. 124pp + lxxxvii plates. Handsomely bound in quarter morocco with marbled paper sides, with five raised bands and a gilt-lettered leather spine label. Tipped-in colour frontispiece. Corner tips gently rubbed, and with a little spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20206
- Title
- The Queen's House, Greenwich. Being the Fourteenth Monograph of the London Survey Committee.
- Author
- GEORGE H.CHETTLE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Trustees of The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, by arrangement with the London Survey Committee
- Date Published
- 1937
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Glossary
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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