Richmond: Matthew Bell, 1938. Book. Good. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Purple patterned cloth hardcovers. with title label to front. Significant wear and rubbing to edges and some loss to spine. Some edge loss to front label not affecting titles, etc. Owner's name (G. J. Willis of St. Thomas Ontario Canada) to front endpaper. Hinges cracking but still holding by cords. Lacks 2-3 leaves at front of last gathering/signature -- probably constituting the final page of text and the beginning of the subscriber (?) list. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Still a reasonably neat copy. Rare. xii,1-84,3-7[list]p..

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Bookseller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 27858h
Title: Beauties of Wensleydale, Pleasures of Sensibility, &c.
Author: Willis, Jeremiah
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Publisher: Matthew Bell
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date Published: 1938
Keywords: literature antiquarian books poetry verse local history literature English Welsh Wensleydale
Bookseller catalogs: Antiquarian Books;
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...