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Modern Painters (Six Volumes including Index)
by Ruskin, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Skyway, Washington, United States
Item Price
€447.94€358.35
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About This Item
Sunnyside, Orpington, London: George Allen, 1897. 6 Volume Set. NO priority, no international orders. New Edition in Small Format. Marbled paper over boards in half leather bindings with rubs at spine ends. Gilt upper page edges. Marbled endpapers. Unmarked books with a light bit of foxing to prelims and page edges. Many pages uncut. Volume I: Of General Principles, and of Truth, lxxii, 456pp. Volume II: Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties, xxviii, 285pp. Volume III: Of Many Things, frontis. with tissue overlay, xvi, 362pp., plates. Volume IV: Of Mountain Beauty, xii, 455pp., plates and illustrations. Volume V: Of Leaf Beauty - Of Cloud Beauty - Of Ideas of Relation, frontis. with tissue overlay, xvi, 398pp., plates. Last Volume: General Index, Bibliography,, and Notes, v, 429pp.. Hardcovers. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 065812
- Title
- Modern Painters (Six Volumes including Index)
- Author
- Ruskin, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- George Allen
- Place of Publication
- Sunnyside, Orpington, London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 12mo - over 6" - 8" Ta
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Turn-The-Page Books
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Skyway, Washington
About Turn-The-Page Books
Customer service is our top priority! Susan is an ALA member librarian and lifelong book collector and enthusiast. Peter has happily spent over 30 years in the used book business. Books are well packaged to prevent damage in transit.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- New
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