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HISTORY GAZETTEER AND DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF LEICESTER AND RUTLAND
by William White
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William White/Simpkin, Marshall & Co, UK, 1877. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Large 8vo, 868pp plus an additional 24 pages of advertisements to rear. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Half leather with green buckram binding with gilt decoration to front cover and lettering to spine in good condition with some wear and rubbing to edges and spine and some marks and scuffs to boards. Inside minor cracks to spine on end papers but binding holding nicely. Amoral bookplate on first page and previous owners name unobtrusively written on title page. All other pages in very good condition with full edge dyed red, complete with fold out map at front. map has a minor tear and a little foxing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000474
- Title
- HISTORY GAZETTEER AND DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF LEICESTER AND RUTLAND
- Author
- William White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Publisher
- William White/Simpkin, Marshall & Co, UK
- Date Published
- 1877
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- topography
Terms of Sale
Nikki Green Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Nikki Green Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glasgow, Glasgow
About Nikki Green Books
Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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