Picturesque Europe: a Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historical Places of Great Britain and the Continent; Volume I the British Isles (Only)
de Taylor, Bayard (Ed. ) & Birket Foster, Harry Fenn; et. al (Illust & Engr. )
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good. 1875. First Edition. Leather. Steel Plate engravings and woodcuts; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 488 pages; 1875 D. Appleton & Company, NY. Volume I only (of 3) being the British Isles 1st edition. Soundly bound in publisher issued full grain patterned brown leather with decorative borders and panels in blind and pictorial title design to cover in gilt. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt boards beveled at edges and all edges gilt. Silk patterned paper endpages; hinges lined with cloth as issued. Some surface skinning to leather over corners and joints and light rubbing edges. Some superficial tears and crease to the 2nd plain paper endsheets and a few tiny mended nicks to front edge of the first few leaves of text. Lavishly illustrated with over 21full-page steel engravings and many in-text and half page wood engravings. Included are exquisitely detailed views of forest scenery, the southern and Cornish coasts of Great Britain, the Derby Dales, English castles, abbeys, and churches, etc. Among the illustrators and engravers are Birket Foster, Harry Fenn; etc . Snugly bound and clean with plates and cuts in fine condition. Light binding wear but overall quite VG. ... Oversize book will require additional charges for most shipping methods. .
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- Librería
- DogStar Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 49657
- Título
- Picturesque Europe: a Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historical Places of Great Britain and the Continent; Volume I the British Isles (Only)
- Autor
- Taylor, Bayard (Ed. ) & Birket Foster, Harry Fenn; et. al (Illust & Engr. )
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- D. Appleton & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1875
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Europe; Decorative bindings;
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DogStar Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Sobre 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.
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
