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Blake's Illustrations to the Divine Comedy
by Roe, Albert S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
-
Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1953. First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth lettered in gilt along the spine. Sunning to the spine and the edge of the front board. A bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper. The dust jacket spine is chipped, with a tape remnant near the heel. Chipping to the top edge of the front panel, and a chip to the rear panel. Publisher's price of $20.00 to the front flap. Includes reproductions of all the plates in the portfolio published in 1922 by the National Art-Collections Fund, London, under the title Illustrations to the Divine comedy of Dante by William Blake. Bibliography, index.; 219, [103] pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26317
- Title
- Blake's Illustrations to the Divine Comedy
- Author
- Roe, Albert S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, NJ
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Alighieri Bildnis Blake, William Blake, William J Dante Dante (Alighieri) , Dante Alighieri Illustrated works illustrations (layout features) , Illustrations to the Divine comedy of Dante Illustrations Images Pictures, FIRST Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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