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The Scented Garden
by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Medici Society Ltd., 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1948. Revised and Enlarged Edition. 318 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates and fold-out plan. Very noticeable annotation to rear free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned with heavy foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Text block corner is slightly warped. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning and foxing to edges. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed binding. Binding remains firm. Plan is bright and clear with light foxing. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a pronounced forward lean. paper stuck to front and rear boards. Clipped jacket has heavy surface wear, with large areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing to spine ends, edges and joints. Lightly tanned and foxed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1690287593ADA
- Title
- The Scented Garden
- Author
- Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Medici Society Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1948
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- 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...