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British and Irish Silver Assay Office Marks, 1544-1936: Old Sheffield Plate Makers' Marks, 1743-1860
by Bradbury, Frederick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Sheffield, UK: J.W. Northend. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1936. Fourth Edition. Flexible leather. Some chipping of leather head & tail of spine, a little worn around edges. Small whitish stain front cover, a few pages dogeared. Obviously well used with minor damage to a few pages. ; All edges gilt, text block not tight but is intact. Black leather covers with gilt stamped titles and border design to front. ; B&W Illustrations; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 84 pages; A pocket sized reference book for dealers or collectors. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18390
- Title
- British and Irish Silver Assay Office Marks, 1544-1936: Old Sheffield Plate Makers' Marks, 1743-1860
- Author
- Bradbury, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Flexible leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.W. Northend
- Place of Publication
- Sheffield, UK
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Silver plate, MAKErs' marks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectibles;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
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