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SPORTING ARCHITECTURE
by Tattersall, George 9d
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG book. No ed stated. Orig gilt & blind stamped green cloth.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Bohn. VG book. No ed stated. Orig gilt & blind stamped green cloth.. No date.. no ed stated.. Hardcover. VG book. Edgeworn. NEAR FINE text & plates. 18 plates & 20+ in text. 29x22(cm), vi,97pp . Tight binding. Inner hinge papers cracked but hinges still sound. Owner's sticker over earlier armorial bkplt. Pencilled notes & names (some erased) on pastedown & fep. Frontis & tp with few lightly foxed spots. The 1/2" strip next to tp spine more heavily stained: odd as no other leaves so effected. Few text pages with small spots of faint foxing. Some offsetting of plates to adjacent leaves. Pix clearly show all flaws but for edgewear. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001649
- Title
- SPORTING ARCHITECTURE
- Author
- Tattersall, George 9d
- Illustrator
- Engraved front, tp, 18 plts.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book. No ed stated. Orig gilt & blind stamped green cloth.
- Edition
- no ed stated.
- Publisher
- Bohn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- No date.
- Keywords
- VG book. Edgeworn. NEAR FINE text & plates. 18 plates & 20+ in text., 29x22(cm), vi,97pp
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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