Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Michigan.
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890. Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County and the Presidents of the United States together with Portraits & Biographies of all the Governors of the State; Full brown leather covers, gilt titles, blind covers decoration; beveled edges, all edges gilt, spine rebacked with brown leatherette, & purple floral endpapers/pastedown; A good copy with wear to extremities & small ink note inside back fep; 878 pages + Index. Size: 8.25"x10.25". Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Raven Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BGM33807
- Title
- Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Michigan.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Chapman Bros.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1890
- Bookseller catalogs
- Michiganiana;
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White Raven Books
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Ypsilanti, Michigan
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- 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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- 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...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...