Histoire d'une Petite Robe de Lin, en vingt-deux Tableaux: Représentant tous les détails de la culture du lin et de la Fabrication de la Toile.
by [Wrightman, Julia P.]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris, 1830. Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spine. . Very Good. Scarce -- only institutional copy evidenced on OCLC First Search at Morgan, and none found in commerce on date of writing this description. A truly charming picture book imparting the step-by-step process, and showing the complexities behind, creating the linen fabric for a dress. N.d., circa 1830. Oblong, 13.5 by 19 cm. 24 leaves. Frontis, title leaf, followed by 22 numbered plates. Print dresson only one side per leaf. Frontis facing title, and everything following entirely on rectos. Cillounting centerpieces on front and rear cover and frontis, there are a total of 25 hand-colored illustrations. The frontis and the plates each have a title above their illustrations, and below are captioned with four lines of verse. Condition: moderate soiling to the cover. Closed tears of spine fabric, top and bottom. Some occasional light stains to the leaves within, but essentially clean. (A little heavier, but not terrible, on the endpapers, which also have an inked ownership inscription.) Hinges reinforced.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007827
- Title
- Histoire d'une Petite Robe de Lin, en vingt-deux Tableaux
- Author
- [Wrightman, Julia P.]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1830
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....