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Homes of Our Forefathers: Being a Selection of the Oldest and Most Interesting Buildings, Historical Houses , and Noted Places on Rhode Island and Connecticut
by Whitefield, Edwin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Whitefield, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth with beveled edges, lettered in gilt. AEG. Errata slip laid in. Light rubbing to the boards, else a nice copy. Some scattered foxing throughout with offsetting on the verso of each plate, else internally clean.
Hitchcock 1394.
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- Bookseller
- Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26304
- Title
- Homes of Our Forefathers: Being a Selection of the Oldest and Most Interesting Buildings, Historical Houses , and Noted Places on Rhode Island and Connecticut
- Author
- Whitefield, Edwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Whitefield
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1882
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA
Payment should accompany order if you are a new customer. Current customers will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Institutions billed per their requirements. ALL ITEMS SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE. Books fully returnable up to ten days after purchase with prior notification.. All credit cards accepted. Postage: $4.00 for first book, $1.75 for each thereafter for USPS media mail. Postage for larger books, international orders and priority mail quoted individually. Reciprocal 20% Dealer Discount. All books in at least Very Good Condition in Very Good Dust Jacket unless otherwise stated.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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