Science and Literature in The Middle Ages and During The Renaissance Period
by Lacroix, Paul
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Bickers & Son, 1878. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Manners, Customs and Dress During The Middle Ages and During The Renaissance Period with Thirteen chromolithographic prints by F. Kellerhoven and upwards of four hundred engravings on wood. Brown leather spine and corners. Edges are bumped with wear. Five raised bands on spine. Decorative gilt and lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. Fore and bottom edges are age toned, top edge gilt. Some foxing. Binding tight. All plates with protective tissue, complete.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bearly Read Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 071738
- Title
- Science and Literature in The Middle Ages and During The Renaissance Period
- Author
- Lacroix, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Three-Quarter Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bickers & Son
- Date Published
- 1878
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
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Bearly Read Books
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Sudbury, Massachusetts
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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.