The Golden Age of Engraving: A Specialist's Story about Fine Prints
by Keppel, Frederick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, rear hinge cracked.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Baker and Taylor Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, rear hinge cracked.. 1910. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Top edges gilt. Many illustrations. xliii, 314 pp. Bibliography, a chapter of verse about prints. Frontispiece photo of author with cigarette and a crow on his knee. The author was a bookseller, and later a print dealer.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38793
- Title
- The Golden Age of Engraving: A Specialist's Story about Fine Prints
- Author
- Keppel, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, rear hinge cracked.
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- Publisher
- The Baker and Taylor Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1910
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Books about Books;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Hinge
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- Gilt
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