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LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING, DELIVERED AT EDINBURGH IN NOVEMBER 1853 With Illustrations
by JOHN RUSKIN , LLD , Hon.Student & Hon. Fellow, Oxford
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SUNNYSIDE , ORPINGTON & LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN, 1899 Vellum Quarter binding with gilt titles and decs, Beige cloth boards, 190 x 130 mm approx. Floral dec end papers, top edge of book block gilt.viii + 256 pp. Frontis + 14 other plates showing 23 figs all as called for. 1899. Sixth Thousand. VG ( Vellum a little soiled/ rubbed to spine, No notable shelf wear or soiling to cloth. Pencil previous owner name to free front end paper and other in ink to preliminary blank. No annotations. Binding sound). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125006
- Title
- LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING, DELIVERED AT EDINBURGH IN NOVEMBER 1853 With Illustrations
- Author
- JOHN RUSKIN , LLD , Hon.Student & Hon. Fellow, Oxford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- GEORGE ALLEN
- Place of Publication
- SUNNYSIDE , ORPINGTON & LONDON
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- 1899 H/b, Vellum 1/4 binding , John Ruskin, LLD , Hon.Student & Hon. Fellow, Oxford , Architecture, Painting, Lectures on Art, Art Criticism, Architectural style and form, Books on line Brighton,
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Glossary
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding 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....
- Vellum
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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