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Angelica: The portrait of an eighteenth-century artist
by Hartcup, Adeline
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Heinemann Ltd., 1954. Very Good. 8vo., pp. x, 214. Black and white frontispiece (of Kauffmann) + plates. Green cloth boards with a black and gilt title stamp to spine. Blindstamp of Heinemann's windmill insignia to lower board. Illustrated endpapers. Upper edge dusted. Dust jacket in a poor condition with large nick to tail of spine, plus further nicks and wear to edges. A bright, tight copy. A portrait of the celebrated Swiss neoclassical artist, Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), who was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 552
- Title
- Angelica: The portrait of an eighteenth-century artist
- Author
- Hartcup, Adeline
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1954
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
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- 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....
- 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...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
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