American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples (Third Printing, August 1905)
by Allen, Charles Dexter & Eben Newell Hewins
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
The Macmillan Company. Used - Acceptable. 1905. Hardcover. Third Printing, August 1905. Cloth. Octavo. xiv & 437 pp. Illustrated. Top edge gilt. Some shelf wear to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown, previous owner's inscription to ffep. Front binding starting, with tear along title page near spine. Binding is shaken and fragile. A Sound working copy. (Subject: Books on Books).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C64595
- Title
- American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples (Third Printing, August 1905)
- Author
- Allen, Charles Dexter & Eben Newell Hewins
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Acceptable
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
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