Queen Elizabeth
by Mandell Creighton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Hanley Swan, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Longmans Green, 1900. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Lacks dustwrapper, has been rebound in blue decrative leather with crest of Kibworth Grammar School to front board, gilt decoration to bo0ards and spine with five raised bands, title to spine is missing. Boards in very good order with little wear. Prize plate to front pastedown, no other inscriptions, frontespiece. Internally bright and clean with little wear. Marbeling to end papers and edge of text block. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.
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- Bookseller
- Red-books )
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31400
- Title
- Queen Elizabeth
- Author
- Mandell Creighton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Longmans Green
- Date Published
- 1900
Terms of Sale
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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
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Biblio member since 2020
Hanley Swan, Worcestershire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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