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Gainsborough et sa Place dans l'Ecole Anglaise
by Armstrong, Walter; B. H. Gausseron (Translator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1899. First French edition. Hardcover. g. Elephant folio. VI, [4], 220pp. Uncut. Contemporary floral cloth with gold lettering on title label laid on spine. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece protected with a captioned tissue guard. Title page in red and black lettering. Remarkable work on Thomas Gainsborough's life and work, profusely illustrated with 62 heliogravures and 10 colored lithographs depicting some of the painter's most notable masterworks. Spine and edges of binding age-toned. Title label rubbed, thus affecting gold lettering. Head of spine slightly chipped. Very minor age toning along paper margin. Binding in overall fair, interior in good+ to very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30736
- Title
- Gainsborough et sa Place dans l'Ecole Anglaise
- Author
- Armstrong, Walter; B. H. Gausseron (Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First French edition
- Publisher
- Hachette et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- English painting, 18th-century painting in the United Kingdom, Heliogravures, Lithographs, Illustrated, Reference, First edition
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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,...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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