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The Sequence of English Medieval Art
by Walter Oakeshott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Faber & Faber Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. First Edition. 55 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour plates throughout. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and plates with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Minor wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning to flaps, panels and spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1636467180TMB
- Title
- The Sequence of English Medieval Art
- Author
- Walter Oakeshott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber Ltd
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Spine
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