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The Cloister and The Hearth
by Reade, Charles; Byam , S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/Good
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto and Windus, 1909. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Byam Shaw. 8vo, original indigo cloth with gilt titles and vignette to front and spine. 664pp. Top edge gilt, uncut front and bottom edges and decorated endpapers. Dust jacket in cream with red decoration, some chipping and edge wear. 20 full page colour plates, including frontis and 10 full page plain plates. A little age toning to front, generally very clean. A historical novel set in Medieval times.
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2211
- Title
- The Cloister and The Hearth
- Author
- Reade, Charles; Byam , S
- Illustrator
- Byam Shaw
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Medieval, historical novel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end 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...
- 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....
- 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...
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