Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in Which They Are Found
by Dunthorne, Gordon
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- Hardcover
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Sitges (BCN), Barcelona, Spain
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About This Item
Washington, D.C.: Published by the Author, 1938. The original edition, with all the color plates, of this essential guide to identifying botanical prints. From a total edition of 2500 copies, this is one of 750 copies with the additional color folding plate with the list of subscribers. Folio, publisher's cloth with large leather label on front cover. Binding sunned and lightly worn, with leather spine label gone. Top edge gilt. Internally clean.
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- Bookseller
- Cole & Contreras (ES)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1128
- Title
- Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in Which They Are Found
- Author
- Dunthorne, Gordon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C.: Published by the Author, 1938
- Keywords
- colebiblio coleart catalogue raisonne botanical fruit flower prints books bill cole harvard bill cole spain william cole harvard william cole spain españa
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We are located in sunny Sitges, on the Mediterranean Coast, half an hour from Barcelona. We have been dealing in rare books since 1991.
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- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Spine Label
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- Sunned
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...