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The Government of Victorian London The Metropolitan Board of Works, the Vestries and the City Corporation
by Owen, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0674358856
- ISBN 13
- 9780674358850
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Harvard University Press / Belknap Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1982. Hardback. 0674358856 . Dust jacket creased at top-edge w/ several minute splits, slight chipping at fore-edges, spine lightly sunned; Black cloth boards, small mark at bottom-edge of front board, gilt lettering bright; Pages spotted on top and fore-edges, previous owner's dedication on ffep, no annotation, B&W figures in text; Binding tight. ; 6.5 x 9.5"; 466 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52949
- Title
- The Government of Victorian London The Metropolitan Board of Works, the Vestries and the City Corporation
- Author
- Owen, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0674358856
- ISBN 13
- 9780674358850
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press / Belknap Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- 0674358856
Terms of Sale
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Walden Books
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London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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