THE WORKS OF THE ADAM BROTHERS. Decoration. Architecture
by Adam, [James & Robert]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Jersey City: H.C. Perleberg, n.d. (ca. 1920's). Folio. Title page + 42 card plates from engravings, unbound, in brown ribbed cloth folder with paper labels on spine and top cover. Edgewear to title page with wear to bottom edge of several plates. A couple of plates have 1/4" chips at corner an. d plate nine is soiled. Otherwise clean and bright in worn folder, torn at head of spine and ties missing..
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- About Books, ABAC
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- 3504
- Title
- THE WORKS OF THE ADAM BROTHERS. Decoration. Architecture
- Author
- Adam, [James & Robert]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jersey City: H.C. Perleberg, n.d. (ca. 1920's)
- Keywords
- Architecture, Interior Design
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- Folio
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- Plate
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- Unbound
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