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Extracts from the Diary of a Huntsman
by Thomas Smith
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Whittaker & Co., 1838. First edition. Full Leather. Good. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 230pp. No advertisements. 6 plates, two of which are fold-out, including frontispiece. Five vignette illustration chapter headings. Bound in ifull red leather. 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt spine lettering and decorations. Marble endpapers. There is some staining to the plates, not reaching the illustrations themselves. Scattered foxing effecting frontispiece. Front free endpaper partially detached. Discoloration to front cover. Errata slip tipped in.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64950
- Title
- Extracts from the Diary of a Huntsman
- Author
- Thomas Smith
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Whittaker & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1838
- Keywords
- Fox Hunting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hunting;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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 ...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
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