A Week at the Land's End. Week at the Land's End.
by BLIGHT J.T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longman Green Longman & Roberts,, 1861. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved title vignette, 10 engraved plates and very numerous woodcut illustrations in the text; original green cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, brown endpapers, uncut, a most attractive, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20433
- Title
- A Week at the Land's End. Week at the Land's End.
- Author
- BLIGHT J.T
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longman Green Longman & Roberts,
- Date Published
- 1861
- Keywords
- topography, cornwall, land's end, penzance, zennor, gurnard, j.t. blight, topography, cornwall, isles of scilly, week, land's, end
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Island Books
Biblio member since 2004
Thakeham, West Sussex
About Island Books
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
Glossary
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- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...