The Habitations of Man in all Ages
by Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugene, Benjamin Bucknall, translator
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1876. Hardcover. Green cloth hardback is tightly bound with gilt and black designs to front cover and spine. Contains numerous black and white illustrations with full color frontis with tissue guard. There are no marks but pasted to front pastedown is the obituary of Viollet-Leduc dated Paris, Sept. 18, 1888 as well as an 1890 ad for the book. To FFEP is pasted a story of the ancient races of North America by Robert Donald. End papers are dark brown and fragile with splits at both front and back gutters. All edges are red. Bevelled binding has wear to spine edges and corners with light rubbing front and back. Digital photos available. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 394 pages .
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- Bookseller
- The Book Lady
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2353
- Title
- The Habitations of Man in all Ages
- Author
- Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugene, Benjamin Bucknall, translator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- Architecture, Viollet-le-duc
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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About the Seller
The Book Lady
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
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