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The Prado: A Description of the Principal Pictures in the Madrid Gallery: With 220 Illustrations
by Calvert, Albert F.; Hartley, C. Gasquoine
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Milwaukee , Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907 149pp, plus 223 plates. Gilt design on front board and spine. Gilt top edge of the text block. Boards have a light bend. Lower edge of front board has small to moderate surface tears. Top edge is dust stained. Spine heel of rear panel is discolored at the bottom 2". Spine panel has darkened. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Cloth is torn at spine head but is still present. Front endpaper has darkened. Former owner notations on the rear endpaper. Signature between text and plates is starting to open. Plates are white! Text is clean and unmarked. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Recycled Records and Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24144
- Title
- The Prado: A Description of the Principal Pictures in the Madrid Gallery: With 220 Illustrations
- Author
- Calvert, Albert F.; Hartley, C. Gasquoine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- John Lane, The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art And Art Instruction;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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