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Fairleigh Hall: A Tale of Oxfordshire During the Great Rebellion
by Crake, A.D
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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GLEBE, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
UK: A.R. Mowbray and Co. hardcover. good. Hardcover in green cloth in good condition. Binding still very good, slighly cocked and cracked in gutter. Spine board is discoloured and rubbed, titling still legible. Titling gilt and decoration on front cover still in good condition, only lightly rubbed. Minor wear and edgewear to boards, including a small stain. Cardboard at board corners is slightly exposed. Page block edges browned, top edge stained and slightly damaged. Endpapers and early/rear pages foxed and browned, text is clean and free of foxing or annotations. Not dated but assumed to be published in the late 1800s. Sappho Cathal 07/21 Cathal 11/22 REPRICED
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sappho Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79599
- Title
- Fairleigh Hall: A Tale of Oxfordshire During the Great Rebellion
- Author
- Crake, A.D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A.R. Mowbray and Co
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Pages
- 325pp
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Sappho Books
Biblio member since 2022
GLEBE, New South Wales
About Sappho Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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