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The British Navy Its Making and Its Meaning
by Ernest Protheroe
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No edition remarks. 694 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains black and white, and colour photographic plates and in-text illustrations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting causing the binding to be shaky. Large crack at front board. Remains of pasted in news paper at front paste-down. Previous owner inscription to front. Free end-paper. Newspaper pasted to damp stained rear paste down. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Hole and additional wear in spine cloth edges.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1658209162MHR
- Title
- The British Navy Its Making and Its Meaning
- Author
- Ernest Protheroe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons Ltd
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
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- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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