Faber and Faber, 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1944. Reprinted. 320 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are lightly tanned with heavy foxing to text block edges. Notable cracking to hinge and gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Presentation plate and pencil inscription on front free endpaper, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Plates are lightly tanned with foxing present. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with slight bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has heavy surface wear, with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing to spine ends, corners and edges. Attempted tape repair to rear panel. Lightly tanned and foxed.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1689582910TMB
Title: Education Through Art
Author: Herbert Read
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 1944

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Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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....
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...