The Wet Flanders Plain.
by Williamson (Henry)
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Beaumont Press, 1929. Quarter-vellum & patterned boards, the spine lettered in gilt. Cover and title page design by Randolph Schwabe. Design and typography by Cyril William Beaumont. Two light marks on the front end paper from old adjacent tape, a very clean and attractive copy. This is one of 80 copies on hand-made parchment vellum, signed by Williamson, Schwabe, and Beaumont; the entire edition was 400 copies. The twenty-fourth book issued by the Beaumont Press. Mathews A11. A record of the author's visits to France in the 1920s, to the battlefields where he had fought on the Western Front.
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- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57173
- Title
- The Wet Flanders Plain.
- Author
- Williamson (Henry)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Beaumont Press, 1929
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- 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...
- 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....