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Cabinet Cyclopaedia: Useful Arts: A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Silk Manufacture
by Lardner, Rev. Dionysius (conducted by)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. A fragile, aged copy of the probable First Edition; Pages are intact and sewn in. Moderately to heavily foxed, stereotyped textblock; Former owner's inked signatures/places/inscription on fep, else clean and tight. Moderately worn cloth spine, crack down the middle of the entire spine; Chipped and frayed spine head and foot; Character-soiled covers, rubbed and worn edges and corners; Protected by a Robert Wang custom slip case with a finger hole at the fore-edge to facilitate easy removal; 276pp., including index.This is an excellent example of very early English-made publisher's bookcloth, very plain and rather thin, with a paper spine label. Embossed, decorative bindings would come later. . Cloth Spine w/paper Boards. Good. Illus. by Drawings and Engravings. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB9675
- Title
- Cabinet Cyclopaedia: Useful Arts: A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Silk Manufacture
- Author
- Lardner, Rev. Dionysius (conducted by)
- Illustrator
- Drawings and Engravings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Carey & Lea
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1832
- Keywords
- Silk Manufacture Origin, Silk Manufacture Treatise, Silk Manufacture Progressive Improvement, Cabinet Cyclopedia
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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