The Encyclopedia Of Ornament.
by Shaw, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: John Grant. Good+. 1898. Hardcover. Forbes Library perforated stamp on title page, lacks bottom inch of spine and top half inch, number at top of spine. ; large 4to; Publisher's cloth, gilt spine title, vi pages, 59 plates. **The color plates are: Specimens of bindings (1534), 1842 title page (copied from another binding), Specimens of binding (16th century), and three plates of painted tiles. .
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- Bookseller
- Janet & Henry Hurley (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57355
- Title
- The Encyclopedia Of Ornament.
- Author
- Shaw, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- John Grant
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Ornament, Color Plate, Book Binding, Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
Terms of Sale
Janet & Henry Hurley
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About the Seller
Janet & Henry Hurley
Biblio member since 2006
Westmoreland, New Hampshire
About Janet & Henry Hurley
Hurley Books was established by my father, Henry Hurley, in 1966. We have been shipping books through the mail for over 40 years with over 200 catalogs having been issued. Our bookshop contains well over 50,000 volumes with 17,000 +/- currently listed on Biblio.
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Good+
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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