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The Gallery of Scripture Engravings Historical and Landscape, with  Descriptions, Historical, Geographical, and Pictorial.

The Gallery of Scripture Engravings Historical and Landscape, with Descriptions, Historical, Geographical, and Pictorial.

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The Gallery of Scripture Engravings Historical and Landscape, with Descriptions, Historical, Geographical, and Pictorial.

by Kitto, John

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About This Item

London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co. circa 1850s. 4to. 2 vols, various paginations, n.d. circa 1850s. 3 vols bound as 2. Smart red morocco binding with raised decorative bands on spine, and red marbled boards and endpapers. Many steel engravings depicting various scenes complete with tissue guards. AEG. Bindings worn, particularly at edges, leather scuffed. One plate torn. Contemporary ownership sig on ffep. Very light and minor spotting, typically to verso of plates, generally very good and clean internally. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1850.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
41327
Title
The Gallery of Scripture Engravings Historical and Landscape, with Descriptions, Historical, Geographical, and Pictorial.
Author
Kitto, John
Format/Binding
Half Morocco
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co. circa 1850s
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1850
Size
4to.
Keywords
Plates,Engravings,Art,Drawing,History,Geography,Landscape,Views
Bookseller catalogs
Illustrated; Philosophy and Religion;

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Glossary

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Marbled boards
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Morocco
Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
FFEP
A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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....
Plate
Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Verso
The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
AEG
All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
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...

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