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Papermaking Through Eighteen Centuries
by Hunter, Dard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. Original brown cloth, red leather title label, gilt titles, t.e.g., in mylar protected dust-jacket, (9.5 x 7 inches). First Trade Edition. xvii, 358 pages w/ Index; illustrated b&w plates, including fold-out frontis. INSCRIBED by Dard Hunter on front free endpage showing both his signature and his red ink library stamp. Based upon the 1923 limited edition "Old Papermaking" this work covers the same period but in a more comprehensive manner. Book showing expected page toning at prelims, else a clean, tight copy in the SCARCE original jacket showing some overall general wear and rubbing.. Signed. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005128
- Title
- Papermaking Through Eighteen Centuries
- Author
- Hunter, Dard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Edwin Rudge
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Dard Hunter; Book Arts
- Size
- Octavo
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
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