Ancient Painting: From the earliest times to the period of Christian art
by Swindler, Mary Hamilton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
H. Milford, Oxford University Press. Used - Very Good. 1929. Cloth, quarto, xlv and 488 pp, with 640 figures and 16 plates. Boards have some wear, with light bumping to corners and slight rubbing to edges. Head and tail of spine worn. Binding is sound and pages clean. Very Good. (Subject: Art History.)
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR18384
- Title
- Ancient Painting: From the earliest times to the period of Christian art
- Author
- Swindler, Mary Hamilton
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- H. Milford, Oxford University Press
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Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.