Wynkyn de Worde & His Contemporaries From the Death of Caxton to 1535: A Chapter in English Printing
by PLOMER, Henry R
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Grafton & Co., 1925. Hardcover. Good. 263 p. 26 cm. 14 b&w illustrations. Quarter tan cloth with grey paper boards. Top edge gilt. Corners worn, some soiling to exterior, spine ends softened. Bookplate on front pastedown for Canadian writer William G. Colgate, and signed by him on front free endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134846
- Title
- Wynkyn de Worde & His Contemporaries From the Death of Caxton to 1535: A Chapter in English Printing
- Author
- PLOMER, Henry R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grafton & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- William G. Colgate, English printers, Wynkyn de Worde, Richard Pynson, Julyan Notary, Faques
- Bookseller catalogs
- Printing;
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- Bookplate
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- G
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- 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...