Art for Art's Sake
by Van Dyke, John C
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. BN4 - Book is cocked, bumped on the corners, wear on the spine edges, some sides, edges and corners, some light water spots, tanning on the page edges, previous owner's name and date written on the page after the front loose endpaper, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise good. Maroon covered boards with gilt lettering and design. Seven University Lectures on the Technical Beauties of Painting.. 9th Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EC7813BB
- Title
- Art for Art's Sake
- Author
- Van Dyke, John C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 9th Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- ART PAINTING INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES NONFICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art: Methods; Art: Methods / Painting;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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