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A Year's Journey through France, and Part of Spain
by THICKNESSE, Philip
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- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Bath. Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the Author. 1777. 8vo, 21cm, the first edition, 2 volumes bound in One., xvii,295,[1] & [6],245(i.e. 242), 1 (advert), with 11 engraved plates, minimal light foxing, edges of 3 leaves lightly worn, not affecting text, rebound in quarter brown calf, gild and decorated raised bands, blind stamped device decorations in the panels, double black crushed morocco labels, marbled boards, a fine copy attractively bound of the scarce first edition (tr). ~ Cox cites only the second edition of 1786; DNB vol. LVI, pages 132-133. Thicknesse was a fairly.
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- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41389
- Title
- A Year's Journey through France, and Part of Spain
- Author
- THICKNESSE, Philip
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Publisher
- Bath. Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the Author. 1777
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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About the Seller
Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
Biblio member since 2006
Ottawa, Ontario
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Glossary
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- Marbled boards
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- First Edition
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
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