Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895 Decorative Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket Blue cloth with ornate gilt cover design, and cover and spine lettering; top edge gilt. With sixteen photogravure illustrations, with tissue guards. Light rubbing to cover extremities.Intermittent foxing to margins of plates and portions of tissue guards. Library marks as follows; spine lettering; bookplate inside front cover; scars to rear endapers ("date due" slip, pocket, sticker, removal); small inkstamp and catalog notations to copyright pages. Otherwise clean and tight.

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Bookseller: The Curiosity Book Shop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9638
Title: Contemporary French Painters: An Essay
Author: Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good-
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Ex-Library First Edition
Publisher: Roberts Brothers
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1895

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Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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....
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...
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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.