Suggestions in Design; Being a Comprehensive Series of Original Sketches in Various Styles of Ornament. Arranged for Application in the Decorative and Constructive Arts
by Leighton, John
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- Paperback
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Blackie and Son 1880. (Folio) xii, 176pp. Good. Green cloth with titles in gilt and decorations in black. Bevelled edges, top edge gilt, 102 tinted plates and 321 illustrations in the text. The covers are worn and the binding has been repaired, the frontispiece and one of the contents pages are edgeworn. (Art, Art, Design, Ornamentation).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143170
- Title
- Suggestions in Design; Being a Comprehensive Series of Original Sketches in Various Styles of Ornament. Arranged for Application in the Decorative and Constructive Arts
- Author
- Leighton, John
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Blackie and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Art, Art, Design, Ornamentation
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART And Architecture;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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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