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Scottish Woodwork of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries Measured and Drawn for the Stone
by SMALL, John William
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Edinburgh: David Douglas, nd. 250 copies printed; this one unnumbered. Hardcover. Fair. Unpaginated. 44 cm. 100 b&w plates. Half black leather with black cloth. Gold print on spine. Binding has worn corners and edges, chipped spine head, cracked hinges, tears in spine tail, discoloured cloth. Antiqu Shop label on front pastedown. Front free endpaper missing. Endpapers foxed and stained. Half title has large verticle crease. Hlf title and title have chipped bottom corners. Rear free endpaper creased and torn. Plates are clean and neat. A decent text block in need of rebinding.
Includes cabinets, chairs, tables, doors, pews, carved panels, etc. from Holyrood Palace, Darnick Tower, McFarlane Museum, Trinity College Church, Stirling Palace, etc.
Includes cabinets, chairs, tables, doors, pews, carved panels, etc. from Holyrood Palace, Darnick Tower, McFarlane Museum, Trinity College Church, Stirling Palace, etc.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 123782
- Title
- Scottish Woodwork of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries Measured and Drawn for the Stone
- Author
- SMALL, John William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 250 copies printed; this one unnumbered
- Publisher
- David Douglas
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- nd
- Keywords
- Woodwork, Crafts, Scottish, Scotland, Woodcarving, Furniture,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crafts;
Terms of Sale
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London, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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