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Bicknell's Village Builder: A Victorian Architectural Guidebook
by GOELDNER, Paul (introduction and commentary)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0892570024
- ISBN 13
- 9780892570027
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Watkins Glen, NY: The American Life Foundation & Study Institute, 1976. Hardcover. Folio. Brown cloth with ornate gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 200pp). Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations, line drawings, floor plans, advertisements (some color, decorative endpapers). Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn; ownership initials to inner flyleaf. Quite handsome facsimile reprint of A.J. Bicknell's famed 1872 architectural guide.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46922
- Title
- Bicknell's Village Builder: A Victorian Architectural Guidebook
- Author
- GOELDNER, Paul (introduction and commentary)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0892570024
- ISBN 13
- 9780892570027
- Publisher
- The American Life Foundation & Study Institute
- Place of Publication
- Watkins Glen, NY
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Architecture;
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Facsimile
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- Jacket
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- Folio
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