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The Drawings of Watteau
by Cormack, Malcolm
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0600025578
- ISBN 13
- 9780600025573
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, UK: Hamlyn, 1970. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 44pp, 132 black and white plates, a few black and white in-text illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Folio. A large and heavy volume requiring an additional charge for overseas delivery. Light water damage to spine heel has cause dust jacket to leech onto boards. Lightly bumped front bottom corner, small dent to rear bottom edge has broken cloth. Text block edges tanning. Pages ageing. Internally very neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear edges, interior has water staining around spine ends. On the drawings of Antoine Watteau.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023219
- Title
- The Drawings of Watteau
- Author
- Cormack, Malcolm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0600025578
- ISBN 13
- 9780600025573
- Publisher
- Hamlyn
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Keywords
- Art, Artists, Drawings
- X weight
- 1.25 kg
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About the Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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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