Bibliographie des Principales Editions Originales d'Ecrivains Francais du XVe au XVIIIe Siècle. Ouvrage contenant environ 300 fac-similés de titres des livres décrits
by Le Petit, J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Engraved armorial booklabel of Florencio Gavito on front pastedown endpaper, small piece missing at lower rear corner of spine a
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Maison Quantin, Paris. first edition, 1888. Contemporary half-mottled calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, 8vo, 26 cm,. vii, [1], 583 (misnumbered "383") pp , facs. Arranged chronologically; author and title indexes. Full bibliographical and historical notes. Engraved armorial booklabel of Florencio Gavito on front pastedown endpaper, small piece missing at lower rear corner of spine and lower rear joint cracked (binding remains sound), minor blemishes to leather, otherwise a Very Good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-36872
- Title
- Bibliographie des Principales Editions Originales d'Ecrivains Francais du XVe au XVIIIe Siècle. Ouvrage contenant environ 300 fac-similés de titres des livres décrits
- Author
- Le Petit, J
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary half-mottled calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, 8vo, 26 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - Engraved armorial booklabel of Florencio Gavito on front pastedown endpaper, small piece missing at lower rear corner of spine a
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Maison Quantin, Paris. first edition, 1888
- Date Published
- 1888
- Pages
- vii, [1], 583 (misnumbered "383") pp , facs
- Keywords
- French literature First editions Bibliography. Early printed books France Bibliography. Le Petit, Jules
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature : Other (Bibliographies);
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About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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....
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