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Architectural Evolution: An Elucidation of the Styles of Architecture from the Earliest to the Present Time
by Hilary Arthur Townsend
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
Arthur H. Stockwell, London, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo <7 3/4". 138 pp. Binding firm, spine slightly cocked and faded. Endpapers browned slightly, text block clean. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Architecture; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 39520. .
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39520
- Title
- Architectural Evolution: An Elucidation of the Styles of Architecture from the Earliest to the Present Time
- Author
- Hilary Arthur Townsend
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Arthur H. Stockwell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- BZDB243 architecture, history, reference Architecture; History. Unbranded Hilary Arthur Townsend Architectural Evolution: An Elucidation of the Styles of Architecture from the Earliest to the Present Time
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Architecture;
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- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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