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Picturesque Washington: Pen and Pencil Sketches. A Souvenir of the American Capital
by Moore, Joseph West
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Providence, Rhode Island: J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1890. Title page dated 1890. Well-kept copy in an attractive Victorian binding. Scenes in and around Washington, together with history, biographies and maps. Light brown cloth over beveled boards lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt and black, all edges gilt, 308 pages. Some scuffing to the extremities and just the beginnings of fraying to the lower spine end, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with an old gift notation dated 1891 on the preliminary blank, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036733
- Title
- Picturesque Washington: Pen and Pencil Sketches. A Souvenir of the American Capital
- Author
- Moore, Joseph West
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- J. A. & R. A. Reid
- Place of Publication
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Date Published
- 1890
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- VIEW SCENIC WASHINGTON DC CAPITAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography;
Terms of Sale
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East Granby, Connecticut
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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...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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