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Wellington & Waterloo (The "Navy and Army Illustrated" Library)
by (Major Arthur) Griffiths
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Newnes Limited, 1898. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Decorative gilt stamped and beveled blue cloth. Illustrated in black & white with colour frontispiece. Binding a little shelf worn, with some discolouration to top of text block and endpapers. Contents are otherwise clean. Size: Quarto. Category: Military & Warfare; History. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Petersfield Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92451
- Title
- Wellington & Waterloo (The "Navy and Army Illustrated" Library)
- Author
- (Major Arthur) Griffiths
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Newnes Limited
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- BZDB16 Military & Warfare; History. (Major Arthur) Griffiths Wellington & Waterloo (The "Navy and Army Illustrated" Library)
Terms of Sale
The Petersfield Bookshop
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
The Petersfield Bookshop
Biblio member since 2023
Petersfield, Hampshire
About The Petersfield Bookshop
"The Petersfield Bookshop" is a traditional bookshop and specialises in buying and selling Antiquarian and second-hand books, but also sells antique maps and prints and. Inside the shop there is a display of antique dolls from Ann Westwood's private collection. A special feature of the premises is a canopied forecourt where second-hand books can be bought 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!
Our opening hours are 10:00 to 17:00, Wednesday to Saturday. (Other times available by appointment)
There is nearby "Pay & Display" parking available and we are short walk from Petrsfield Station (On the London to Portsmouth route).
We are members of: ABA, ILAB & PBFA
Our opening hours are 10:00 to 17:00, Wednesday to Saturday. (Other times available by appointment)
There is nearby "Pay & Display" parking available and we are short walk from Petrsfield Station (On the London to Portsmouth route).
We are members of: ABA, ILAB & PBFA
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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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....
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