ANCIENT PAINTING: From the Earliest Times to the Period of Christian Art
by Swindler, Mary Hamilton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1929. 489+pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Corners bumped. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Pg. edges browned. Illust. w/ a section of b/w plates. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11811ARTH
- Title
- ANCIENT PAINTING: From the Earliest Times to the Period of Christian Art
- Author
- Swindler, Mary Hamilton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Art, Art History, Painting, Ancient Painting, Christian Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Art History;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....