Victorian book design and colour printing.
by McLean, Ruari
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG-
- Seller
-
Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 1st ed. (U.K.) 8vo, hot pink cloth / gilt titles, 182 pp, 8 colour plates, 64 monochrome plates, 9 line illustrations, index. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has small stain to top page edge, contents clean and tight; jacket has sl. edgewear, soiling along folds, stain across bottom of rear panel, spine lt. tanned, prcie-clipped. A nice copy of this book that looks at the fascinating period of book design and printing in nineteenth century Britain.
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- Bookseller
- Bygone Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15058
- Title
- Victorian book design and colour printing.
- Author
- McLean, Ruari
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- London: Faber & Faber
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- DESIGN PRINTING GREAT BRITAIN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books about books;
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About the Seller
Bygone Books
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Bluffton, South Carolina
About Bygone Books
A closed shop of fine used and collectible books with specialties in Literature, Children's, Domestic Arts, Decorative Arts, and Great Britain.
Glossary
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- SL.
- slight
- VG+/VG-
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly less than Very Good Condition. Very...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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