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JUBILEE NUMBER: THE DRY GOODS ECONOMIST. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY, 1846-1896
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- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
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VINELAND, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
N Y: The Textile Publishing Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1896]. First Edition. Limited Editions Club. Color Illustrations; 205 pages; Width: 11" Height: 14.5". Bound in maroon cloth over beveled boards with stamped gilt lettering to the spine and bright color pastedowns to the front and rear cover. The book shows external wear, with rubbing and minor scuffing/scratching to covers. A 1/2" closed tear appears in the lower half of the spine cover. Minor loss of material can be seen at the top/bottom and the outside corners of the boards. The binding is sound. The edges of the text block are tinted red. The front endpaper, the preliminary pages and the first 75 pages of text display water markings to the fore edge, growing ever smaller as one progresses though the text. A minor water mark can also be seen on the fore edge of last pages. The rear endpaper is lightly soiled. The pages of text are clean and bright. This work is lavishly illustrated, with views of buildings, interiors, full-page advertisements, portraits, and various aspects of manufacturing in the 19th century. First Edition Antique Commerce Manufacturing Illustrations Decorative Binding .
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- Bookseller
- poor mans books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35727
- Title
- JUBILEE NUMBER: THE DRY GOODS ECONOMIST. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY, 1846-1896
- Author
- Uncredited
- Format/Binding
- Limited Editions Club
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Textile Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- N Y
- Date Published
- [1896]
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Glossary
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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