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Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and Their Works. A Handbook
by Clement, Clara Erskine
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1874. Second edition, 1874. Art history reference, alphabetically arranged, illustrated with engraved plates and additional engravings of artworks, initials and insignia, etc. Brown cloth over beveled boards, gilt spine lettering, all edges tinted red, 661 pages. Covers rubbed, especially at the extremities, spine a bit faded, good hinges, sound text block, closed tear to one leaf with no loss of text, clean pages with no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013013
- Title
- Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and Their Works. A Handbook
- Author
- Clement, Clara Erskine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Publisher
- Hurd and Houghton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1874
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- ART HISTORY ARTISTS PAINTER SCULPTORS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arts - Fine, Decorative, Antiques, Performing Arts;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...