Costumes Historiques de la France D'après les Monuments les plus authentiques, Statues, Bas-reliefs, Tombeaux, Sceaux, Monnaies, Peintures à fresque, Tableaux, Vitraux, Miniatures, Dessins, Estampes, etc.. 8 + app.
by Lacroix, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Administration de Librairie, 1852. Ten volumes. 2,629 pages of text with 640 hand-coloured engravings with gilt highlighting. With tissue guards and 7 black and white engravings. One quarter red morocco binding with cloth boards. Four raised bands, blind stamped and gilded lettering and floral frames. Top edge gilt. Silk endpapers. Ex libris on introduction volume. Mild shelfware. Slight foxing throughout. Quarter black morocco, raised and gilt, t.e 25x16.5cms. Text in French.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas Heneage Art Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 123301
- Title
- Costumes Historiques de la France D'après les Monuments les plus authentiques, Statues, Bas-reliefs, Tombeaux, Sceaux, Monnaies, Peintures à fresque, Tableaux, Vitraux, Miniatures, Dessins, Estampes, etc.. 8 + app.
- Author
- Lacroix, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: Administration de Librairie, 1852.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About Thomas Heneage Art Books
Founded in 1977, Thomas Heneage Art Books is the UK's largest and one of the world's leading art bookshops. We specialise in books for the art market, our core business being in catalogue raisonnés, monographs and international exhibition catalogues. It is our policy to stock the most authoritative book on any subject and in any language, irrespective of its being new or second hand. We also sell antiquarian books and objects of Fine Art. We are members of the ABA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association), ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) and LAPADA (the Association of Arts and Antiques Dealers).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...