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A Brief Account of the Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of the Wye Between Ross and Chepstow by Author Unknown
- Bookseller: SugarTreeBooks
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 709706
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket as Issued
- Illustrator: Engravings by Picken, A. (frontis, from stone) & Bartlett, W. H. (13 engravings)
- Edition: Probable First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: T. Jew
- Place: Gloucester, England
- Date published: 1839
Description
Gloucester, England: T. Jew, 1839 Covers greatly worn around extremities. Some scattered foxing here and there. Old damp-stain at lower outside corner, but only mildly affecting title pages. Engravings are all present, fairly bright, and firmly bound, as is text.. Probable First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Engravings by Picken, A. (frontis, from stone) & Bartlett, W. H. (13 engravings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
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