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Modern Bookbindings Their Design and Decoration
by Prideaux, S. T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket (as Issued?)
- Seller
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1906. x, [3], 4-131pp, [1]. Original cloth, with title, author, publisher and place in gilt to spine, and Prideaux's monogram in gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. Upper cover slightly faded at head, fore edge of text block foxed, light foxing to a few text leaves, one plate slightly loose. Former owner's name to ffep. With forty monochrome photographic plates, showing fifty-eight bindings. Appleton, page 84; Brenni 411; Mejer 952; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 5660. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket (as Issued?). 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Zetetic Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004186
- Title
- Modern Bookbindings Their Design and Decoration
- Author
- Prideaux, S. T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as Issued?)
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Archibald Constable and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Bookbinding, Prideaux, Bibliography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography and Reference;
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Zetetic Books
Biblio member since 2015
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
About Zetetic Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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