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English Bookbindings in the British Museum: Illustrations of Sixty-three Examples Selected on Account of their Beauty or Historical Interest. With Introduction and Descriptions …
por Fletcher, William Younger
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895 First edition, limited to 500 copies, this number 244. Large folio (1525" x 12"), xvii pages followed by 66 color plates with descriptive text & tissue guards interleaved, the plates printed by William Griggs "chromo-lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen." Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth Top edge gilt, the others uncut, decorated endpapers.
Binding rubbed, soiled, & faded at the spine & margins, fraying at spine extremities & corners, upper joint partially split, corners bruised, text block cracked in a couple of places, modest internal toning, Good or so & still quite serviceable.
This copy from the library of noted collector Otto Orren Fisher with his bookplate at the front pastedown. In 1949, Fisher donated the most significant books of his 80,000 volume collection, including four Shakespeare Folios, to his alma mater, Miami University.
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 810
- Título
- English Bookbindings in the British Museum: Illustrations of Sixty-three Examples Selected on Account of their Beauty or Historical Interest. With Introduction and Descriptions …
- Autor
- Fletcher, William Younger
- Estado do livro
- Usado
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- 1
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- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1895
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palavras-chave
- Bookbinding, Books on Books, English Bookbinding, British Museum, William Younger Fletcher, William Griggs, Chromolithography
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Books about Books; Illustrated Books; Great Britain, United Kingdom;
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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,...
