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Shadow and Substance
by Bennett, Charles H. and Robert B. Brough
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: W. Kent & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-libris bookplate on the front pastedown. Moderate rubbing, brief pencil and small catalogue description affixed to front endpaper verso, half-title and frontis loose but present, a few splits, fading. ; Half green leather, marbled paper boards and endpapers, gilt spine titles and design, 5 raised bands and 6 compartments, top page edges gilt, original spine preserved on a rear endpaper. An scarce oddity, one of few issues retaining original black-and-white illustrated plates, not hand-colored. ; Ex-Libris; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 232 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Boards and Wraps
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72302
- Title
- Shadow and Substance
- Author
- Bennett, Charles H. and Robert B. Brough
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W. Kent & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
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- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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