British Book Illustration Yesterday and To-day
by SALAMAN, MALCOLM C
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. SMALL QUARTO. - Blind stamped and gilt decorated boards worn and toned w/ fading worsening progressively to top edge - Spine ends and corners crushed - Top gilt edged text block rubbed and unevenly toned - Endpapers heavily stained and toned w/ front free endpaper creased - Guttering open to numerous leaves w/ some of the pages coming a little loose - Numerous marks and stains to page margins and some toning - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - viii/175 pages
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- Bookseller
- Green Ink Booksellers (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 636040
- Title
- British Book Illustration Yesterday and To-day
- Author
- SALAMAN, MALCOLM C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Date Published
- 1923
- Size
- No dustwrapper
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Hay on Wye, Powys
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- 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....
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...