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The World's Worship in Stone: Temple, Cathedral, and Mosque
by Ripley, M. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Estes and Lauriat. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1880. Hardcover. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1880 (date on title page, copyright date is 1879). viii,176pp. 13 x 10 in. Elaborate black, gilt, and blind-stamped green cloth, beveled edges, brown endpapers, all text edges gilt. Gilt bright, cloth slightly rubbed at edges, small scrape to rear cover, both front and rear hinges (inner) cracked but stabilized with archival glue, short tear to lower edge of title leaf. Very good plus condition. With engraved frontis and 155 full-page and text engravings.; Engravings; 13 x 10 inches; 176 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12757
- Title
- The World's Worship in Stone: Temple, Cathedral, and Mosque
- Author
- Ripley, M. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- Estes and Lauriat
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1880
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Engravings, Publisher's Cloth, Illustrated Book, Religion
Terms of Sale
Dale A. Sorenson
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About the Seller
Dale A. Sorenson
Biblio member since 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Dale A. Sorenson
Used and rare books of quality in all subjects.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
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