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Considerations on Painting: Lectures Given in the Year 1893 at the Metropolitan Museum of New York
by La Farge, John
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan and Co, 1895. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 270 pp [1 ads]. Rust red cloth with gilt titling to front board and spine, decorative gilt borders to boards and top edge of text block. Deckled bottom and fore edges. Faint signs of shelfwear and handling to exterior and light soiling to endpapers, otherwise very clean. Several bolts remain uncut at fore edge.
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- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 581
- Title
- Considerations on Painting: Lectures Given in the Year 1893 at the Metropolitan Museum of New York
- Author
- La Farge, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- art, artist, painting, painter, lecture, new york, nyc, met, museum
Terms of Sale
small volume
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About the Seller
small volume
Biblio member since 2023
Providence, Rhode Island
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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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
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