Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America . with Biographies. by Evert A. Duyckinck . Illustrated with Highly Finished Steel Engravings from Original Portraits by the Most Celebrated Artists . Volume I, 1873, Full Leather Bound.
by Duyckinck, Evert A
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New York: Johnson, Wilson and Company., 1872 Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America . with Biographies. by Evert A. Duyckinck . Illustrated with Highly Finished Steel Engravings from Original Portraits by the Most Celebrated Artists . Volume I, 1873, Full Leather Bound with ornately decorated & blindstamped covers, banded 6 compartment spine with gilt titles. VG condition. Brilliant AEG & wrap-around edge gilt dentilles, lovely and contrasty marbled end papers. Cuite attractive, embellished by many full-page tissue-guarded steel engravings. Volume I, 640 pages. Dual dated 1872 & 1873 on 2 separate title pages. Light number to lower spine, library plates on verso of each cover.
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- Title
- Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America . with Biographies. by Evert A. Duyckinck . Illustrated with Highly Finished Steel Engravings from Original Portraits by the Most Celebrated Artists . Volume I, 1873, Full Leather Bound.
- Author
- Duyckinck, Evert A
- Illustrator
- Assorted
- Format/Binding
- No Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Johnson, Wilson and Company.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1872
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- World History;
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- VG
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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...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
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