Wellington & Waterloo
by GRIFFITHS, MAJOR ARTHUR & WOLSELEY, FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT K.P (intro)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
George Newnes, Ltd. 1898. Quarto, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt and black stamped lettering and motif to front board,aeg, frontispiece, viii + 280pp, illus, VG (moderate browning to spine, moderate bruising and rubbing to spine extrems and hinges, moderate browning and light soiling to boards, light rubbing and bruising to board edges and corners, moderate foxing to verso of fep and recto of ep.
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 273850
- Title
- Wellington & Waterloo
- Author
- GRIFFITHS, MAJOR ARTHUR & WOLSELEY, FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT K.P (intro)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Newnes, Ltd. 1898
- Keywords
- military history battle Wellington Waterloo illustrated Europe
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the 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....
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...