British Battles on Land and Sea
by GRANT, JAMES
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cassell & Company 1899. Quarto, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, black & gilt decoration to spine & boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiv + 712pp + 8pp publisher's classifieds, illus, VG- (moderate creasing & light chipping to spine extrems, light scuffing to board corners, moderate staining to front board, moderately heavy tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, light crease to bottom of fep, moderate cracking to gutters, crack to full length of gutter of pgs 354-355 & 384-385)
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- Title
- British Battles on Land and Sea
- Author
- GRANT, JAMES
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company 1899
- Keywords
- British military history illustrated
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...