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PAINTINGS AND MINIATURES AT THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA
by Nicholas B. Wainwright
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 9 x 11 in. Cloth boards. B&W plates. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers like near new, binding tight. Endpapers damp-stained and edges of text block foxed. DJ is VERY GOOD ; rubbed, some light foxing, a little edge wear and loss to spine head. Art. Stax.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25379
- Title
- PAINTINGS AND MINIATURES AT THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- Author
- Nicholas B. Wainwright
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1974
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Blue Hill, Maine
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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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