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ROGER PAYNE ENGLISH BOOKBINDER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
by Davenport, Cyril
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Caxton Club. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 250 (1st. Ed). (xx) + 81pp. Illustrated with small margin drawings, and 30 pages of color & b/w plates plus 3 pages of Payne's Handwriting. Printed for Caxton Club on English handmade paper. Clean red cloth decorated with a gilt border and title on spine. Top edge gilt with deckle edges. Text is tight, clean & intact. Additional illustration, a frontispiece of Payne's shop. Top margin of rear endpaper has a narrow damp stain. All Tissue guards are present, a few are laid in. Spine is slightly color faded from the sun. Books on Books, Bookbinding. ; Color & B/W Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 79 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16817
- Title
- ROGER PAYNE ENGLISH BOOKBINDER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- Author
- Davenport, Cyril
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Caxton Club
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Books On Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books On Books;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.
About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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