The Concise English Dictionary Literary Scientific and Technical by Charles Annandale
1905. New and Enlarged Edition. 848 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. A heavily damaged book with intense splitting. All text block edges red. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Slight dusty mottling to endpapers. Profuse inscriptions to front endpaper and pre title page. Pencil inscriptions to title page. Faint creases to some pages. Text block edges dusty. Boards have heavy edge wear, with bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Joints worn too with complete splits to cloth along both joints. Unsightly fraying. Scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Spine is noticeably sunned. Gilt is bright.