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Renaissance Tapestry The Gonzaga of Mantua
by Simon, Kate
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060158476
- ISBN 13
- 9780060158477
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0060158476 . Red hardcovers with red cloth spine covering, gilt titles to the spine. VeryGood++ with light spine end bumping and tanning to the bottom cover edges. Tight. Bright & unmarked. The DJ is Very Good++, glossy with light cover & edgewear. "The Gonzaga dynasty, which held the dukedom of Mantua in its iron grip for centuries, was as pleasure-loving and internecine as any leading family of Renaissance Italy. Simon nicely captures the excesses and contradictory passions that swept the ducal palace as she chronicles fraternal rivalries, poisonings, bribes of popes, seesaw alignments of warring states." ; 9.30 X 6.50 X 1.80 inches .
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13597
- Title
- Renaissance Tapestry The Gonzaga of Mantua
- Author
- Simon, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060158476
- ISBN 13
- 9780060158477
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0060158476, Italy, Renaissance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arts; Europe;
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- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...