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Ex Libris: Essays of a Collector
by Allen, Charles Dexter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good (shelfwear to boards, light age toning. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise clean.)
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston/ New York/ London: Lamson, Wolffe, and Company, 1896. 327/750. Hardcover. Good (shelfwear to boards, light age toning. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise clean.). Light blue cloth boards with gilt bordering and lettering; bw illustrated frontispiece; top edge gilt, xxxv, 157 pp; bw illustrations. "This edition is limited to 750 copies of which this is number 327" -title half page verso. Includes a mounted signature of author on frontispiece verso along with a bookp plate mounted on frontispiece verso. Contents: Introduction; Remarks Upon Some Book-plates of Special Interest: Germany, France, England, America; Conclusion; and Index. Also includes a list of the illustrations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 186751
- Title
- Ex Libris: Essays of a Collector
- Author
- Allen, Charles Dexter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (shelfwear to boards, light age toning. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise clean.)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 327/750
- Publisher
- Lamson, Wolffe, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston/ New York/ London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Bookplates ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books and Manuscripts and Printing;
Terms of Sale
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Biblio member since 2004
Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
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