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Four-edge Painting; A Historical Survey of a Curious Art in Book Decoration
by Weber, Carl J
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Irvington-On- Hudson NY: Harvey House, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. 10 1/4 x 71/4 inches (26 x 18.5), brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, price clipped dust jacket, color plate of a four-edge painting on Robert Burns's "Poems", plus for additional plates and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. 123 pp. First Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1043
- Title
- Four-edge Painting; A Historical Survey of a Curious Art in Book Decoration
- Author
- Weber, Carl J
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harvey House, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Irvington-On- Hudson NY
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Four-edge painting
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Member of ABAA/ILAB. On-line sales and the occasional book fair.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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