Buy this book on-line PLUNKETT,THE HON. E: : THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE BRITISH NAVYLONDON.LONGMAN,BROWN,GREEN,AND LONGMANS,1846. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,ex-lib,slim 8vo HB,1st edn.VG.[Though an ex-public library book,in publisher's original cloth binding and with all it's usual library alpha-numerical notations,it's
overall appearance both externally and internally,is of a solid,sound,clean example]No previous owner inscrptn,but a neat,clean,
dark blue Anchor motif'ed 'Plymouth Public Libraries - MOUNT WISE NAVAL HISTORY LIBRARY'
bookplate pasted to lightly grubbed plain white front pastedown.An obliquely placed,
rectangular,red ink 'Withdrawn From Plymouth Library Services' library stamp to ffe; with
front hinge partially cracked.Usual library
alpha-numerical library notations/markings/
stamp to recto of title-page.Recto of rear free endpaper's bottom edge has a taped library barcode,and the rear hinge is cracked,and finally another slim rectangular,
black ink 'Plymouth Public Libraries' stamp to book's bottom edges.White tippexed numerical library notation to foot of spine/
backstrip.No other ex-library notation apart from those already described.Top+fore-edges edges slightly darkened/aged - as usual/
normal - and deckled (untrimmed); contents tight,solid and sound and generally clean.
Publisher's original,contemporary, blind-tooled blue cloth bds; ornate edged borders with cartouche to centre - to both bds,with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Bound by Westleys & Clark,
London.Board's edges/borders and the spine/
backstrip are dulled and slightly darkened,
boards slightly marked and grubbed,all corners bumped too.Spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing; head of same shows slight,cloth fraying with a tear,
but still in situ.UK,ex-lib,slim 8vo HB,1st edn,ivpp+2-216pp+2-30pp (publisher's catalogue) [paginated] includes contents list/table,intro,12 chapters includes a conclusion,appendices(I-V),and a publisher's May,1846,dated 30pp catalogue at rear.
Described hard but fairly and honestly.
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