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A Facsimile Of The 1550 Edition Of Arte Subtilissima with a trasnlation by Evelyn Shuckburgh and an introduction by Reynolds Stone
by De Yciar, Juan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Lion and Unicorn Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. Owner's ink stamp to front free endpaper. Some foxing to preliminary leaves, endpapers and page edges. A nice copy. ; Fawn cloth boards with a black leather spine with gilt lettering. Black panel on front board illustrated in gilt. No. 75 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Top page edges gilt. "The plates have been reproduced by photo-lithography and the book has been bound and printed by the Lion and Unicorn Press at the Royal College of Art. Designed by Denis Priestley." ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6910
- Title
- A Facsimile Of The 1550 Edition Of Arte Subtilissima with a trasnlation by Evelyn Shuckburgh and an introduction by Reynolds Stone
- Author
- De Yciar, Juan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Lion and Unicorn Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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