Val D'arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories
by John Ruskin
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Allen, 1882. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1882. No Edition Stated. 230 pages. Full bound blue leather. Contains black and white illustrated plates. The Works of J. Ruskin Volume VIII. Gilt text block edges. Pages are moderately tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Binding is firm. Minor black mark to top edge of text block, text is unaffected. Inscribed by a previous owner. Plates are lightly tanned with some foxing. Pencil annotations throughout. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Visible sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Small area of loss to spine edges. Leather peeling to edges, corners, and spine. Marks and scratches overall.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Val D'arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories
- Author
- John Ruskin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Allen
- Date Published
- 1882
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- Gilt
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- Inscribed
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- Acceptable
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- Spine
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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...
- 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....