The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad
by SMITH, Albert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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CHELTENHAM, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London, Richard Bentley, 1848. Octavo, xii+512 pages, original boards in a half binding of marbled paper and black leather, gilt lettering on spine, marbled edges and endpapers, rubbed, lightly foxed, a very good copy. First edition
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grant's Bookshop (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28856
- Title
- The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad
- Author
- SMITH, Albert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Richard Bentley, 1848
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Grant's Bookshop
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CHELTENHAM, Victoria
About Grant's Bookshop
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...