The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Art, and Their Significance
by MacFall, Haldane & Leman Hare
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co. Used - Acceptable. 1909. First Ed. hardcover. London: Macmillan and Company. Blue cloth with gilt stamped lettering and decoration. Quarto. xvi & 211 pp. Illustrated with tipped-in color plates. Some shelf wear and scuffing to boards, mild discoloration to spine. Frontispiece plate missing. Foxing to endpapers, mild toning to pages. (Subject: Art & Graphic Design).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C55578
- Title
- The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Art, and Their Significance
- Author
- MacFall, Haldane & Leman Hare
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Macmillan and Co
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- Acceptable
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- Cloth
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- Quarto
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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