The Makers Of Florence: Dante Giotto Savonarola and their city
by Oliphant Mrs
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1892 Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece; 8 other plates; 44 text illustrations; Leather-Bound Hardback: full red polished calf elaborately decorated in gilt, spine panelled with raised bands, brown leather lettering-piece, end-papers and all edges marbled, school prize bookplate to front pastedown and gilt device to top board ( Barrow High School), signed binding (Bickers & Son); Very slight signs of use, previous owner's inscription, near fine.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10005
- Title
- The Makers Of Florence: Dante Giotto Savonarola and their city
- Author
- Oliphant Mrs
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Leather Bindings Leather Bound Florence Dante Giotto Savonarola Bickers Binders Medici
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About the Seller
Bookfare
Biblio member since 2014
Ambleside, Cumbria
About Bookfare
Established 1977. Having run shops in Edinburgh and Windermere for twenty-five years, Bookfare is now postal business only.
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- Fine
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- Bookplate
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Device
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- 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....
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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