Papermaking Through Eighteen Centuries
by Dard Hunter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 6.5 x 9.5in. xvii. 358pp. Publisher's cloth board with leather title label in gilt. Top text-block edge is gold. Pertinently the former copy of artist and graphic designer Charles E. Pont with his bookplate at the front paste-down and a short former owner gift inscription. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the endpapers lightly toned, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the spine somewhat darkened, even browning of the front and back panel, slight loss from the head and foot of the spine, otherwise remains distinct. As pictured.
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Details
- Bookseller
- North Books: Used & Rare (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29643
- Title
- Papermaking Through Eighteen Centuries
- Author
- Dard Hunter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Edwin Rudge
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...