ENGLISH INN SIGNS
by LARWOOD, JACOB AND HOTTEN, JOHN CAMDEN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Chatto and Windus, 1951. Front cover vignette of antlered buck in gilt. This is a revised and modernized version of the "History of Signboards", with a chapter on modern inn signs by Gerald Millar. Illustrated in black and white with 64 plates of inn signs and 16 plates of billheads. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. 336pp. with index. . First Edition.. Red Cloth Lettered in Gilt. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011750
- Title
- ENGLISH INN SIGNS
- Author
- LARWOOD, JACOB AND HOTTEN, JOHN CAMDEN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Wear and Soiling.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- English History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...