CAMEOS.
by DAVENPORT, CYRIL
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Corner Wear./No
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Seeley and Company., 1900. Gilt lettering and central cover design. Top edge gilt.. Well-illustrated. Slight foxing to fore-edge. Comprehensive history, hard to find in first edition. Black endpapers. Front hinge just barely starting to weakn. Eight full-page color illustrations protected by tissue guards. Twenty others in monochrome. All illustrations printed by Edmund Evans at the Racquet Court Press. Chapters on cameo materials and their cutting processes, early cameos and glass pastes, Graeco-Roman and medieval cameos, Renaissance and later cameos. 66pp. + adverts.. First Edition. Maroon Cloth. Light Corner Wear./No. Royal Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000250
- Title
- CAMEOS.
- Author
- DAVENPORT, CYRIL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Corner Wear.
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Seeley and Company.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- Royal Octavo
- Keywords
- CAMEO ART, COLOR PLATES, EDMUND EVANS
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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