Exterior Decoration (Victorian Colors for Victorian Houses): A Treatise on the Artistic Use of Colors in the Ornamentation of Buildings, and a Series of Designs, Illustrating the Effects of Different Combinations of Colors in Connection with Various Style
by Dornsife, Samuel J. [Editor]
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0916530000
- ISBN 13
- 9780916530006
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1976. First edition, limited to 5,000 copies. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Philadelphia: Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1976, first printing. Oblong folio, 15 1/4" x 11 3/4", 95pp., illustrated with 20 full page color plates, 50 paint sample swatches, Harrison Bros. color card, vintage ads. Green vinyl covered boards with gilt titles, brown patterned endpapers. Shallow cut line across the front dust jacket panel into the vinyl surface, light wear at the lower spine and tips. Very good, clean, bright in edgeworn, good dust jacket with loss at the crown. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Good. Folio.
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- The Wild Muse (US)
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- Title
- Exterior Decoration (Victorian Colors for Victorian Houses): A Treatise on the Artistic Use of Colors in the Ornamentation of Buildings, and a Series of Designs, Illustrating the Effects of Different Combinations of Colors in Connection with Various Style
- Author
- Dornsife, Samuel J. [Editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0916530000
- ISBN 13
- 9780916530006
- Publisher
- Athenaeum of Philadelphia
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture & Design;
- Size
- Folio
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