Leipzig, Germany: Schmidt & Guenther. 8vo. 23 pp. + [48 pp. of plates]. Green cloth-covered boards with color paste-in plate and gilt lettering. Good with sunning along board edges and spine, marginal chipping along top of spine and toning along interior gutter. Color plates and black and white frontis. Ex-library. Includes pasted-in nameplate on verso of front-wrap, call number on front and lending sheet attached to front endpaper. Translated from German into English.Provenance: Originally from the Oliver Collection of the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Library, Ephram Hill, Surrey, England.

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Seller: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 18-6606
Title: Carpets of the Orient.
Author: Grote-Hasenbalg, Werner
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Leipzig, Germany: Schmidt & Guenther
Bookseller catalogs: Textiles;

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Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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....
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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...
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...