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BYWAYS AMONG ENGLISH BOOKS
by CYRIL DAVENPORT
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON : METHUEN & CO, 1927 Blue cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and blind blocked to upper board, 195 x 135 mm approx. x + 190 pp + 8 page publisher's trade catalogue. Frontis + 5 other plates on china clay paper + 71 figs all as called for. First Edition 1927. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Near Fine (Book -light general shelf wear to cloth, no previous owner name or insc. a few foxing spots to edges of book block. Dust Jacket- negligible shelf wear or soiling, in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket). A book for the shelf of all bibliophiles.
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131638
- Title
- BYWAYS AMONG ENGLISH BOOKS
- Author
- CYRIL DAVENPORT
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- METHUEN & CO
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Cyril Davenport, Miniature Books, Embroidered Books, Horn Books, Book Plates, Publisher's Devices, Woodcuts, Fine Bindings,
Terms of Sale
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
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- 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...
- Fine
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