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Rembrandt; --with an essay on the life and work of Rembrandt by C. Lewis Hind
by Menpes, Mortimer
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original decorated hardcover, combining gilt lettering with surrounding brown and orange design, Beige boards, no dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Heavy paper for text and color plates. Pages are rough cut. For the era, 1905, having these color reproductions of Rembrandt's paintings was a stupendous advance, writes Menpes, who "adapted and developed the modern process of colour printing, so as to bring it into sympathy with the subject." All plates present. No foxing to pages. All color plates in fine condition with their thick paper protectors. Solid binding. Front endpage is stained from some piece of paper resting on it too long. Some minor soiling to boards. 4to. 50 pp. plus two pages of ads.
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- Bookseller
- Warwick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96481
- Title
- Rembrandt; --with an essay on the life and work of Rembrandt by C. Lewis Hind
- Author
- Menpes, Mortimer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Dutch Golden Age painter; Dutch master painters; 17th century Dutch painting
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About the Seller
Warwick Books
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South Pasadena, California
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...