Adam & Charles Black. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1906. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint with additional corrections. Pale blue bds with green & orange flower patterning, gilt titles, top edge gilt, very sl paling to spine. All plates present with titled tissue guards. First, fifth and 6th text binding weak, with page 64 plate loose at bottom half, occasional internal spotting; some to a couple of plates at edge, name/date to ffep, sl tanning to side and bottom text blocck edge, with sl dark marks to bottom corner, wear to spine ends and corners. A heavy item that will require additional shipping for overseas customers on some sites. ; 225x170mm; 246 pages .

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Bookseller: Lion Books PBFA (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 79249
Title: Egypt Painted and Described
Author: R. Talbot Kelly
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Adam & Charles Black
Date Published: 1906
Keywords: Egypt

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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....
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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...
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...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
SL.: slight
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
BDS: Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...