HISTORY OF LACE
by Palliser, Mrs. Bury
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair to Good-
- Seller
-
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Entirely revised, re-written, and enlarged under the editorship of M. Jourdain and Alice Dryden. With 266 illustrations. 536 pages with index. Green cloth covers with white lace inlay on front cover and gilt lettering on front and spine. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed to boards, joints rubbed, scuffing to cover faces. Spine is creased, stained, faded from sun exposure, spine ends are missing. Ex. library marks include: identification numbers to bottom spine, library bookplate on front inside cover, embossed stamp and numbers on preface page, embossed stamp on various interior pages, checkout sheet on back free endpaper, barcode/due date sticker and pocket envelope on back inside cover. Gilt page edges. Both hinges are reinforced with cloth tape. Spine broken throughout interior. Tears to frontispiece tissueguard. Interior pages are lightly browning along edges, and spine loose. Book in Fair to Good- condition.. Hard Cover. Fair to Good-. Illus. by Illustrations. Size: Approx. 7 " x 10 1/4". Historical.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006352
- Title
- HISTORY OF LACE
- Author
- Palliser, Mrs. Bury
- Illustrator
- Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good-
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- History, Needlework, Lace
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference Resource;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 7 " x 10 1/4"
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
Biblio member since 2010
Princeton, New Jersey
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...