EARLY AMERICAN PRINTS
by Drepperd, Carl W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York/London: The Century Company, 1930. 232 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Spine sunned w/ wear to spine ends. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ b/w plates.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Good-/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 333
- Title
- EARLY AMERICAN PRINTS
- Author
- Drepperd, Carl W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- Publisher
- The Century Company
- Place of Publication
- New York/London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- ART HISTORY EARLY AMERICAN PRINTS DECORATIVE ARTS COLONIAL PERIOD REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD GOLDEN AGE AMERICAN ENGRAVING BEGINNINGS AMERICAN LITHOGRAPHY LITHOGRAPHS N. CURRIER AND CURRIER & IVES BOOK MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATIONS EARLY AMERICAN CARICATURES AMERI
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- Art; Decorative Art;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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