Book-Plates of Today (Ltd. To 50 copies)
by STONE, Wilbur Macey
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Tonnele and Co., 1902. Bound in 1/4 vellum spine and original gray boards. This 62 pp. book is #17 of 50. American designers of book-plates : William Edgar Fisher / by W.G. Bowdoin -- Nineteen book-plates by British designers from the London "Studio" -- The artistic book-plate / by Temple Scott -- Thirty-two book-plates from various sources -- Book-plates and the nude / by W.M. Stone -- The architect as a book-plate designer / by W. Steell -- A check-list of the work of twenty-three book-plate designers of prominence / compiled by W.M. Stone. This is unusual because the colored bookplates are signed by the designers (and protected by tissue sheets. Rare -- no copies of this limited edition in OCLC/Worldcat. . Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59005530
- Title
- Book-Plates of Today (Ltd. To 50 copies)
- Author
- STONE, Wilbur Macey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Tonnele and Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Book Plates
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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. ...