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LIFE IN ENGLAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770 - 1860...A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE by Abbey, J.R.:
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Americana
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: WRCAM 21502
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953.
Description
London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953.. xxi,427,[1]pp. Colored frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large quarto. Original buckram, t.e.g. Fine. In original dust jacket. Number 80 from an edition limited to 400 copies. The most comprehensive work in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals, and the like, depicting British life in aquatint and lithography. Beautifully illustrated.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
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.
buckram : A cloth made of cotton or linen which is used to cover a book.
quarto : A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
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