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LES AMOURS PASTORALES DE DAPHNIS ET CHLOE.
by Longus
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
Chelsea,: Ashendene Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/290 copies, Text in French. Batchelor hand-made paper. Red title/margin notes, blue initials hand-colored by Graily Hewitt. . 1/4 vellum, gilt titles to spine, turquoise boards with gilt-stamped vignette to front board, vellum-tipped corners. Uncut pages. 26 woodcuts. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Housed in publisher ornamental cardboard slipcase, wear to corners and spine but completely intact. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 163 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books On The Boulevard
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56032
- Title
- LES AMOURS PASTORALES DE DAPHNIS ET CHLOE.
- Author
- Longus
- Illustrator
- Gwendolin Raverat
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Ashendene Press
- Place of Publication
- Chelsea,
- Date Published
- 1933
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Uncut Pages
- 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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