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Fifty Drawings by Canaletto from the Royal Library Windsor Castle
by Miller, Charlotte and Canaletto (artist)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0384073158
- ISBN 13
- 9780384073159
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London, UK: Johnson Reprint Company Limited/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First edition thus, limited. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Elephant folio in Solander box. 44pp. + 50 free facsimile drawings on heavy rag paper. Brown cloth covered boards with giltstamped title to inner book. Drawings wrapped in brown paper sheath with unstuck sticker seal present with sticker ghost (not attached). Solander box 1/4 leather & brown cloth covered boards with giltstamped title & five raised bands to spine: large darkened area to spine from water damage. Limited edition of 520 sets of which 500 are for sale, hand-numbered 91/500. Very light shelfwear. 1/2" crack to joint of box's upper spine extreme, does not bisect the edge (see picture).
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3087
- Title
- Fifty Drawings by Canaletto from the Royal Library Windsor Castle
- Author
- Miller, Charlotte and Canaletto (artist)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus, limited
- ISBN 10
- 0384073158
- ISBN 13
- 9780384073159
- Publisher
- Johnson Reprint Company Limited/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1983
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Fine
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Cloth
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