The Art of the Venice Academy
by Potter, Mary Knight
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
L.C. Page & Company, 1906. Light blue coarde grained cloth stamped in red and gold. Top edge gilt. Illustrated. Covers sunned with resulting fading and dulling to cloth, especially at backstrip. A title in the Art Galleries of Europe series. Material pertaining to other titles in series pasted onto front endpapers. "Containing a brief history of the building and of its collection of paintings, as well as descriptions and criticisms of many of the principal pictures and their artists." A clean, solid copy. Near very good.. Decorative Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002477
- Title
- The Art of the Venice Academy
- Author
- Potter, Mary Knight
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- L.C. Page & Company
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Venice, Art, Italy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Italy;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...