A History of Printing: Its Development Through Five Hundred Years
by Oswald, John Clyde
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1928 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xx (ii) 403 (3) pp, illus. First Edition, 1928. Light external wear with loose frontis, and age-toning to bottom and fore text block. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.5". Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006208
- Title
- A History of Printing: Its Development Through Five Hundred Years
- Author
- Oswald, John Clyde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING PRINTING HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
- Bookseller catalogs
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING;
- Size
- Large Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Cloth
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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....
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.