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Ett Ar I Sverge.; Taflor af Svenska Almogens kladedragt, lefnadssatt och hemseder, samt de for landets historia markvardigaste orter
by Grafstrom, Anders Abraham & Christian Didrik Forrsell
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Contemporary half polished russet calf and marbled boards. All edges yellow. Fine.
- Seller
-
ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Stockholm: Johan Horberg, 1827. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half polished russet calf and marbled boards. All edges yellow. Fine.. 137 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Forty-seven hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guards, plus hand-colored vignette title, and two engraved plates of music. Grafstrom, poet and historian wrote the text, and Forssell made the engravings. Index. List of Plates and errata. Costumes from Dalarna, Helsingland, Lappland, Sodermanland, Westergothland, Smaland, Blekinge, and Skane. Lovely copy, plates and text clean, fresh and bright; bookplate, raised bands, spine panels richly guilt in floral motifs, marbled endpapers, maroon morocco spine label printed in gilt.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18472
- Title
- Ett Ar I Sverge.; Taflor af Svenska Almogens kladedragt, lefnadssatt och hemseder, samt de for landets historia markvardigaste orter
- Author
- Grafstrom, Anders Abraham & Christian Didrik Forrsell
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Contemporary half polished russet calf and marbled boards. All edges yellow. Fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Johan Horberg
- Place of Publication
- Stockholm
- Date Published
- 1827
- Bookseller catalogs
- Costume; Textiles; Fashion;
Terms of Sale
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
All books returnable 10 days of invoice date with prior notification
About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
Biblio member since 2008
ardsley, New York
About Royoung bookseller, Inc.
Member: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America & International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- 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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