The Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific; On the Basis of Webster's English Dictionary Comprising All Words Purely English Illustrated By About Two Thousand Engravings on Wood. Vol. I.; A-I
by Ogilvie, John (Editor)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London: Blackie and Son, 1850. Dark brown boards, rich reddish-brown pebbled leather spine wrap and book corners, gilt accents and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub. Classic spine features six panels, titles and four ornamental with crowns and five raised bands. Pages generally very good; some fox to first few front, back pages. Frontispiece plate of "The School of Athens" by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. Marbled exterior text block and endpapers. Antiquarian bookplate inside cover; features crest with dragon rising from behind. Bind good; hinges intact. Large volume 8" x 10 3/4" design weighing nearly 6 lbs. Volume I. A-I. Printed by W. O. Blackie & Co., Villafield, Glasgow. 1052 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- BiblioStax
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019776
- Title
- The Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific; On the Basis of Webster's English Dictionary Comprising All Words Purely English Illustrated By About Two Thousand Engravings on Wood. Vol. I.; A-I
- Author
- Ogilvie, John (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Blackie and Son
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London
- Date Published
- 1850
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
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- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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