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Chinese Decorative Art; a Handbook for Collectors and Connoisseurs
by Martin Feddersen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber and Faber Ltd, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. First Edition Thus. 286 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Jacket is in plastic wrapper. Fold-out plate and table to end of book. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Light tearing to edges of fold-out table and plate. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Some rubbed dark marking to surfaces. Jacket is in plastic wrapper.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1652166351CHR
- Title
- Chinese Decorative Art; a Handbook for Collectors and Connoisseurs
- Author
- Martin Feddersen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd
- Date Published
- 1961
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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