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1917. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Schulthess, Ludwig. The title, translated into English: Canton of Zurich Churches, Castles and Palaces for Recordings of Ludwig Schulthess. Hermann Escher dedicated as a Festschrift on his 60th birthday by friends and admirers. In academia, a Festschrift is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during his or her lifetime. Hermann Escher was the Director of the Central Library of Zurich. This is a large bound collection of mounted architectural drawings of Ludwig Schulthess, a Swiss engineer and draftsman. There are twenty pages of text in German, followed by 40 mounted images of buildings and/or architectural details with captions. Some are sepia toned, some with light color and some with full color. The pages are a heavy stock, and the images are matted. Each image is just over 6x8 inches. The book is half-bound in vellum over fine paper with a red leather oval for titles in gilt. The boards are rubbed with some mild scuffing and edge wear. Small area of tail of front board with heavy chipping. Damp stain along rear joint of spine. Scattered foxing to text pages and light toning to edges of stock pages. Binding sound.
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- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000470
- Title
- Z
- Illustrator
- Schulthess, Ludwig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Date Published
- 1917
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- GERMAN ARCHITECTURE GERMANY LUDWIG SCHULTHESS HERMANN ESCHER ZURICH CENTRAL LIBRARY RENDERINGS CHURCHES CASTLES PALACES ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS Art
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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....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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,...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
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