Art Treasures of Germany: A Collection of the Most Important Pictures of the Galleries of Dresden, Cassel, Brunswick, Berlin, Munich and Vienna. With Portraits of the most Celebrated Masters and Explanatory and Biographical Notices
Published by Samuel Walker & Company
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: SmarterRat Books, Chagrin Falls, OH, U.S.A.SmarterRat Books
AbeBooks seller since March 20, 2018
Condition: Used - Good
£ 192.50
Quantity: 1 available
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Good ; No jacket. Samuel Walker & Company. Boston, 18 Arch Street. No publication date. Circa 1880s. NOT ex-library. Oversize hardcover, 10 x 12.6 x 2.8 inches, is bound in full brown leather, elaborately stamped and decorated in gilt and black on front cover; matching black-stamped design on back cover. Cover decorations include floral and leaf devices, borders and ribbons, an eagle, a crown, an urn, and armorial shields. Spine has five gilt-embellished raised bands. Five spine panels have gilt and black stamped devices; remaining panel has gilt title. Gilt inner dentelle borders on all boards. All page edges gilt. Tissued frontispiece. Black and white engravings on plates, most with tissue guards. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and edges of leather rubbed and chipped. Surface has scuffs in few places, mostly on the back cover. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Some pages have light brown stains in the margins. Light foxing to some pages, mostly on the tissue coverings and adjacent pages. Name in pencil on front free endpaper, and another on the first blank flyleaf, also in pencil. Minor damage to some of the tissue coverings, such as small tears and creasing; some tissues are missing. Pages clean and unmarked. Pagination is non-continuous, with 276 pages of novels with plates, a large section of additional plates, then 198 pages of biographies. No dust jacket. "Novels" are actually stories of a few pages to 20 or so pages in length, each based on a particular art work, which is itself reproduced in the book as engravings; there are 24 of these stories. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. This item will be shipped with signature confirmation required.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Art Treasures of Germany: A Collection of the Most Important Pictures of the Galleries of Dresden, Cassel, Brunswick, Berlin, Munich and Vienna. With Portraits of the most Celebrated Masters and Explanatory and Biographical Notices
- Author
- Gorling, A.; Meyer, B.; Woltmann, A.
- Publisher
- Samuel Walker & Company
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Art
SmarterRat Books
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AbeBooks seller since March 20, 2018
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