Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by ADAMS, HENRY & CRAM, RALPH ADAMS (Intro)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin N/D (approx. 1913). Quarto, brown quarter bound boards with brown buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, teg, frontis with tissue guard, xiv + 401pp, illus/plates (not counted, presumed all present), VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & bruising to board extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to front pastedown)
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- Title
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
- Author
- ADAMS, HENRY & CRAM, RALPH ADAMS (Intro)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin N/D (approx. 1913)
- Keywords
- Chartres cathedral building history architecture art illustrated
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- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...