FABLES DE LA FONTAINE: avec Nouvelles Remarques Explicatives Philologiques et Litteraires
by La Fontaine, edited by Felix Lemaistre
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1872. Hardcover. Good +. xliv, 420 pgs. 4 x 7 in. Text in French. Quarter blue and green (spine) calf with blue marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. 5 raised bands. Marbled endpapers. B&W frontis and illustrations. Condition of the book is GOOD+ ; spine worn at ends, chipped and worn at sides, leather is dry, cracked at front hinge, binding is sound. Covers worn and slightly faded, corners quite worn edges quite worn. Edges of text block are foxed, upper end darkened.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3543
- Title
- FABLES DE LA FONTAINE
- Author
- La Fontaine, edited by Felix Lemaistre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garnier Freres
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1872
- Bookseller catalogs
- Text in French;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...