La Decoration Polychrome d'apres les Etoffes Anciennes.
by M Dupont-Auberville, illustrated by M Bachelin-Deflorenne:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie de la Noblesse et des Beaux-Arts. no date [c. 1880]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). Folio (41cm x 32cm), [vii], 40pp, 100 colour plates (collated complete), each accompanied by a page of text. Recently rebound in quarter grey morocco, grey cloth boards, burgundy title label to the spine, top edge gilt. This book was formerly in a reference library, with a discreet blindstamp to the margins of each plate, and there is some light chafing to the edges of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Text in French.
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- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60660
- Title
- La Decoration Polychrome d'apres les Etoffes Anciennes.
- Author
- M Dupont-Auberville, illustrated by M Bachelin-Deflorenne:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: Librairie de la Noblesse et des Beaux-Arts. no date [c. 1880].
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Tewkesbury
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We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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