LIFE AND WORK OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND A PICTORIAL RECORD FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES The Sixteenth Century.
by HARTLEY, Dorothy, and Margaret M. Elliot
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Publisher's blue boards with red spine and upper board lettering, octavo, pp. xv, 93. Replete with 149 illustrations. Outline Historical Chart: 1500-1600. One page of contemporary sheet music entitled "Sleep" by Thomas Morley. A couple pages in the Table of Contents/List of Illustrations section are unopened. Previous owner small tasteful book plate on front paste-down. Very Good with just light shelf wear. Dust jacket Good with light chipping at spine ends and tips; a little shelf soiling on front panel and spine; and an old crease near bottom edge of rear panel. Jacket ensconced now in a new sheet of archival Brodart.
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- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002051
- Title
- LIFE AND WORK OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND A PICTORIAL RECORD FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES The Sixteenth Century.
- Author
- HARTLEY, Dorothy, and Margaret M. Elliot
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press, 1926.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
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About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
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- New
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....