KNIGHT'S PICTORAL GALLERY OF ARTS. Illustrated with steel engravings and nearly four thousand woodcuts
by (KNIGHT, Charles)
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- Hardcover
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Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: London Printing and Publishing Co., 1860. Early edition, "Forty-Sixth Thousand." Large 4to (35 cm). 2 volumes: (2), ii, xl, 388; (2), ii, 404 pp. [text largely printed triple-column]. Profusely illustrated; extra engraved title page to volume one. Volume one: "Useful Arts"; Volume two: "Fine Arts." Contemporary half-leather (rubbed, corners bumped) and pebbled back cloth, gilt titles and rules between raised bands on spine. Very good.
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- Bookseller
- Bartlebys Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66953
- Title
- KNIGHT'S PICTORAL GALLERY OF ARTS. Illustrated with steel engravings and nearly four thousand woodcuts
- Author
- (KNIGHT, Charles)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London Printing and Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1860
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Bartlebys Books
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Chevy Chase, Maryland
About Bartlebys Books
Bartleby's Books specializing, since 1984, in Americana and general antiquarian material, including books, archives, and ephemera.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Title Page
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- New
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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