- Bookseller: Argosy Book Store
- Seller Inventory #: 31939
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
Book Description
First Edition. hardcover. 36 plates, 17 mounted, 8 color, one folding, and 604 text illus. 466pp. 4to, gilt dec. buckram. Potsdam, 1938. History of classical Greek art. Vol. II, part I of Die antike Kunst. From Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft. Chamberlin 444.
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gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
buckram : A cloth made of cotton or linen which is used to cover a book.
