Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner, who was slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745. With an appendix relating to the ancient family of The Munro's of Fowlis
by Doddridge, P
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Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh (printer), 1807. 2nd Edition98hw . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 268 pages (complete). Scottish printing. Quarter-leather, marbled boards. In benign, affable condition. The leathered corners, spine have wear, rubbing. The boards are scuffed, worn, placid. The front paste down has a previous owner signature. The contents, even taking the age of the book into account, are pleasing. They are clean, clear, healthy, characterful, age-mottled and foxed, tight, assured, comfortable, contented. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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- Title
- Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner, who was slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745. With an appendix relating to the ancient family of The Munro's of Fowlis
- Author
- Doddridge, P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
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- 2nd Edition98hw
- Publisher
- Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh (printer)
- Date Published
- 1807
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- 0.00 lbs
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- Marbled boards
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...