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PAPERMAKING THROUGH EIGHTEEN CENTURIES
by Hunter, Dard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Surprise, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Unopened. 358pp. Folding frontispiece. Illustrated. Bound in light brown cloth, red leather spine label gilt, top edge gilt. A fine bright copy in very good tan printed dust jacket with spine a little darkened. A more comprehensive work than Hunter's Old Paper Making and contains additional text and a great variety of illustrative material. It deals only with the early methods of paper fabrication as most other material was covered in his previous works.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4762
- Title
- PAPERMAKING THROUGH EIGHTEEN CENTURIES
- Author
- Hunter, Dard
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Edwin Rudge
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2006
Surprise, Arizona
About Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
- 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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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