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A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood
by Bewick, Thomas
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Dublin, Dublin
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About This Item
Newcastle Upon Tyne: T. Bewick, Longman, Hurst Etc, 1820. bound in recent half-morocco, pages x, 528, lavishly illustrated with woodcuts, text generally clean and tight but a couple of gatherings (20 pages in all) are variously foxed, apparently a paper quality issue in this edition. Nice copy.. Seventh Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Glenbower Books
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 26656
- Title
- A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood
- Author
- Bewick, Thomas
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Seventh Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Bewick, Longman, Hurst Etc
- Place of Publication
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Date published
- 1820
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATION, WOODCUTS, NATURAL HISTORY,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sciences and Technology;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Glenbower Books
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- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...[more]
- foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...[more]
- tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...[more]
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