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The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
by Plummer, John (Introduction and Commentaries)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: George Braziller, 1966. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition thus.. Beautiful hardcover book, Reproduced from the Illuminated Manuscript Belonging to The Guennol Collection and The Pierpont Morgan Library, in unworn original slipcase. Errata slip still laid in. Clean beige faux vellum boards with gold coat of arms on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Gorgeous color plates throughout. 359 pages. Clean black paper-covered slipcase has clean unchipped decorated label on one side; no chipping, no cracking or wear. A fine copy..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32579
- Title
- The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
- Author
- Plummer, John (Introduction and Commentaries)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition thus.
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, CATHERINE OF CLEVES, JOHN PLUMMER, SLIPCASE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Religion;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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