The Silver and Sheffield Plate Collector; A Guide to English Domestic Metal Work in Old Silver and Old Sheffield Plate
by W. A. Young
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. Third Printing. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates have mild tanning and foxing throughout. Cracking to gutters with exposed binding. Binding remains firm. Occasional thumb-marking present. Minor dark marking to text-block edges. Boards have mild edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends. Scuffing and light marking overall. Faint ring mark to front board with brown paper remnants. Small area of water staining to rear board. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning. Light tanning to spine and edges.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1623423002EWY
- Title
- The Silver and Sheffield Plate Collector; A Guide to English Domestic Metal Work in Old Silver and Old Sheffield Plate
- Author
- W. A. Young
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins Limited
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....