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Payne's Royal Dresden Gallery: Being A Selection of Subjects Engraved After Pictures By The Great Masters...Volume the First
by Payne, A. H.; French, W
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- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: Published for the Proprietors, n.d.. Hardcover. Fair. Quarto. iv, 164 pages. Illustrated with steel engravings. Wavy cloth covered boards with leather corners and spine. Raised bands, gilt decorations, and gilt title on the spine. Leather is worn on the corners and spine. Outer joints and inner hinges cracked. Board edges rubbed. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the engravcings throughout the volume. Volume 1 only. Poor to fair condition.
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26797
- Title
- Payne's Royal Dresden Gallery: Being A Selection of Subjects Engraved After Pictures By The Great Masters...Volume the First
- Author
- Payne, A. H.; French, W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Published for the Proprietors
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d.
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About the Seller
Americana Books ABAA
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
About Americana Books ABAA
Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
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- 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....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Poor
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- Cloth
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
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