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Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book
by MacKay, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Town, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son & Co.. Heavily foxed in areas. 36 tissue-guarded steel engraved plates. Edge-wear with scuffing to boards and extremities. The marbled paper is peeling away from the edges. 5 raised bands with gilt lines and lettering on the spine. Sunning to spine with some stain marks. Red speckled tint to all edges. 71 Pages. 2nd version. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Marbled board with leather spine and corners
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quagga Books
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 300652
- Title
- Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book
- Author
- MacKay, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son & Co.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art etc. (International); Fiction & Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Quagga Books
If an item is misdescribed we will offer a full refund. Tracking is only offered on the expedited postage option. Please note we offer the standard postage option without any tracking as an option for lower priced items as courier from South Africa is costly. Thus standard postage items in transit are at the purchaser's risk. Postage based on standard average sizes, if an item is particularly small, we will reduce the postage. If an item is larger than standard size, postage may increase.
About the Seller
Quagga Books
Biblio member since 2018
Cape Town
About Quagga Books
We have been in business for over 25 years. Situated in Kalk Bay, Cape Town at the Southern tip of Africa, we deal in all types of collectable books. Over the years we have been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Louis Vuitton Travel Guide, The Guardian and numerous others.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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