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German Renaissance Title-Borders; --Facsimiles and Illustrations No. 1
by Johnson, Alfred Forbes (selected by)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in original beige boards with cloth at spine. No dust jacket. First edition. Pages are clean and unfoxed, binding is tight, spine has a very slight lean. Top edge gilt, side edge deckled. Facsimiles of decorative woodcut book borders produced in Germany between 1510 and 1535. 4to. Includes introduction, list of plates, index of printers, and 86 full-page plates. Bookplate from the library of Nellie Shackleford Smith, a teacher and member of a prominent Virginia family whose sister, Mattie T. Shackleford, was a nurse in the American Red Cross during W.W.II.
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- Bookseller
- Warwick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96343
- Title
- German Renaissance Title-Borders; --Facsimiles and Illustrations No. 1
- Author
- Johnson, Alfred Forbes (selected by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Book decoration; German Renaissance
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Warwick Books
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South Pasadena, California
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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