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Utopian Craftsmen The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago
by Lambourne, Lionel
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Northport, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Astragal Books (1980). Inscribed by the author "To xxx and xxx with every good wish-Lionel"; small 4to.; green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 218 pages including index; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations; top page edges are foxed and bottom corners of boards are bumped else a very good tight copy in a edgeworn and heavily sunned dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- WellRead Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37665
- Title
- Utopian Craftsmen The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago
- Author
- Lambourne, Lionel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Astragal Books (1980)
- Keywords
- Decorative Arts and Crafts, Inscribed, Book-binding, Metalwork, Furniture Making
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorative Arts and Crafts;
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About the Seller
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Tight
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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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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...
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