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PICTURESQUE EUROPE. - 3 VOLUME SET - DELINEATION BY PEN AND PENCIL OF THE NATURAL FEATURES AND THE PICTURESQUE AND HISTORICAL PLACES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT. ILLUSTRATED ON STEEL AND WOOD BY EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ARTISTS by Taylor, Bayard (editor)
- Bookseller: Adams & Adams - Booksellers
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 016280
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Appleton & Company
- Place: N.Y.
- Date published: 1875
Description
N.Y.: Appleton & Company, 1875 complete 3 volume set. All edges gilt. Dark brown 3/4 pebble grain morocco and brown cloth with raised bands, gilt decoration, and marbled endpapers. Exceptionally clean, crisp, bright and solid. Very fine. 488pp; 459pp; 491pp; plus plates. uneven coloration to cloth and a couple of minor wear spots to edges. 60 steel engraved plates, 3 steel engraved title pages, hundreds of wood engravings. One steel plate has a small spot in the margin, otherwise all are very fine.. First Edition. Three-Quarter Leather. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
raised band(s) : On leather bound books, the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
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.
crisp : A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp will not have 'well-read' pages, i.e., where the book will naturally open to certain pages or sections.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
folio : a large book size, generally 15" in height or larger.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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