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Les Vitraux de Jérusalem by CHAGALL, MARC
Description
Publisher: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1961, 85pp plus 3 pages in back. 7.2" by 9.6" Soft cover. Style of binding is paper jacket with flaps adhered at spine to cardstock covers. Text in French. Beautiful stain glass windows series by Marc Chagall. It has four plates and a cover that are very good quality reproductions, with about 20 other high quality black and white illustrations of other windows and "dessin preparatories." Paper covers have some wear and very minor darkening but interior is very good..
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
flap(s) : The portion of a dust jacket which folds around the edges of a book. Often has descriptive text printed on it.
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. Also known as the back.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
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