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A History of the British Army: Vol. IV, 1789-1801, Second Part
by J.W. Fortescue
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1906. Hardcover. Good. 1906. No edition remarks. 598 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Ex libris plate at front. Rough cut edges to textblock. Some uncut pages. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1713939335MHP
- Title
- A History of the British Army: Vol. IV, 1789-1801, Second Part
- Author
- J.W. Fortescue
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1906
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Uncut Pages
- 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
- Cloth
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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