The Stones of Venice : Introductory Chapters and Local Indices (Printed Separately) for the Use of Travellers While Staying in Venice and Verona : Selections
by Ruskin, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: T. Y. Crowell. Very Good+. 1905. Leather. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 322 pages; Circa [1905-1907] T. Y. Crowell. Small format bound in flexible supple green leather with decorative titles tooled directly in gilt to spine. Solid and fresh copy, this volume appears to be somethng of an "abridged" pocket version for travellers. Contents: "The quarry. The throne. Torcello. St. Mark's. The Ducal palace." 322 pp. Just very mild fading to the green leather at spine; prior owner name and 1907 date penned neatly at front. Otherwise splendid. VG++ to NF .
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48050
- Title
- The Stones of Venice : Introductory Chapters and Local Indices (Printed Separately) for the Use of Travellers While Staying in Venice and Verona : Selections
- Author
- Ruskin, John
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Y. Crowell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Bookseller catalogs
- Europe; Decorative bindings;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....