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L'ALPHABET DE LA MORT
by HOLBEIN, HANS
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light General Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Edwin Tross, 1856. Original front wrapper bound-in. Quite a clean copy. Text bordered by engravings of illustrations from "The Dance of Death". Blank pages follow the text block to allow for a better size for binding. Purple cloth covers. Spine lettered in gilt. . French Edition. 1/4 Brown Leather. Light General Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014556
- Title
- L'ALPHABET DE LA MORT
- Author
- HOLBEIN, HANS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light General Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- French Edition
- Publisher
- Edwin Tross
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- Thin Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Holbein, Dance of Death, French Language
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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