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The Sermon on the Mount
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London:: Chatto & Windus,. Hardback. The Sermon on the Mount from the Gospel of Matthew (chapters 5 - 7). Printed on folded leaves; pagination in red; colophon to final leaf in red "designed, written out and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski" "the whole reproduced by the Graphic Engraving Company". With beautiful colour illumination throughout in strong jewel colours and heavy gilt, as well as fine decorative tracery to illustration edges and spaces. Alberto Sangorski (1862–1932) was accomplished calligrapher and illuminator. Decorated cream paper covered boards with printed in red to the upper board with decorative boards and repeated design of alpha and omega with flowers, circles, stars of David, Celtic knot work and IHS monogram, red titles to spine. Binding is slightly browned at the spine and edges, with a few minor marks, light rubbing to corners, shelf wear to the spine ends. Some faint marginal ink transfer and finger marks. Owner's name or similar obliterated in blue ink to the front end paper; partial faint browning to the end papers. Pages are slightly waved presumably because of the weight of ink in the decorated and illuminated design. With beautiful colour illumination throughout. Inner hinges are sound Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1911.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21280
- Title
- The Sermon on the Mount
- Illustrator
- Alberto Sangorski
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Christianity,Alberto Sangorski,Sermon on the Mount,Gospel of Matthew
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
Biblio member since 2005
Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
We are a member of the PBFA and ibooknet -www.ibooknet.co.uk Our specialisms are academic books particularly literary criticism, literary biography, literary texts and literary and critical theory, history, plus some philosophy, psychology, politics and religion. We also stock local history books, mainly on Yorkshire. We also stock children's literature. We have a small general stock in the wider academic arts and humanities.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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