W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 376 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Edited by P Hately Waddell. With illustrated frontispiece. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Many dog-eared corners. Gutters somewhat cracked with slightly exposed netting. Frontispiece loose. Foxing more intense towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Boards have some edge wear, with some bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Ugly split to lower front joint. Rather scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Some water staining to front and rear. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt is bright.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1656612957GEO
Title: Kenilworth: A Romance
Author: Walter Scott
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell

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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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
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...
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,...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...