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English Coloured Books by Martin Hardie; With an Introduction by James Laver
by Hardie, Martin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Bath, England: Kinsmead Reprints, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. xxiv, 339, [1] p., color frontispiece and 27 leaves of plates (some in color, some black and white); 25 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Appendices contain lists of books with plates printed by Baxter and by Ackermann, and lists of books with plates by Rowlandson and by Alken. Includes index. Book is in Near Fine Condition: top page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Vary Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; slight creasing along lower edge of front section; clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005418
- Title
- English Coloured Books by Martin Hardie; With an Introduction by James Laver
- Author
- Hardie, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kinsmead Reprints
- Place of Publication
- Bath, England
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books & Printing; Art, Photography, & Antiques;
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
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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...
- Leaves
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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