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Pictures and Painters of the English School with Sketches of Some of the Most Celebrated Deceased Painters from the Time of Hogarth to the Present Day
by Monkhouse, W. Cosmo
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: R. Worthington, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. Gilt and black stamped brown cloth boards, small quarto, unpaginated, illustrated with forty steel engravings. Book VG with wear to spine ends and corners, rubbing and soil to boards and spine, binding tight with repair tape to inner gutters, text clean and unmarked, with gilt to edges of text block. No DJ.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B44262
- Title
- Pictures and Painters of the English School with Sketches of Some of the Most Celebrated Deceased Painters from the Time of Hogarth to the Present Day
- Author
- Monkhouse, W. Cosmo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- R. Worthington
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- Art History
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About the Seller
Common Crow Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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