Early Florentine Woodcuts. With an annotated list of Florentine Illustrated Books.
by Kristeller, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., 1897 First edition. One of 350 copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. Quarter brown leather over brown cloth boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt. Large octavo. Light foxing to edges and first and last few leaves. Top corners bumped, but a very good, attractive copy. Bookplate of Arnold Yates.
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- Bookseller
- Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15175
- Title
- Early Florentine Woodcuts. With an annotated list of Florentine Illustrated Books.
- Author
- Kristeller, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Quarter brown leather over brown cloth boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. One of 350 copies, printed at the Chiswick Press
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co.,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1897
- Pages
- xlv, [3], 184 pp. + 123 pp. of illustrations. Index
- Size
- Large octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Bookplate
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- Leaves
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- Edges
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