- Seller Inventory #: 3364
- Format: Hardcover; 1st Printing
- Book condition: VG/G+
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1950
- Keywords: El Greco, Leo Bronstein, Art, Painting
New York: Harry N. Abrams. VG/G+. 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover; 1st Printing. 42. 1st edition/1st printing. Very nice art book. Green cloth cover with color plate on front and gilt lettering on spine. There is a full color tipped in end plate in the front of the book. The color reproductions are beautiful. The spine is straight but minimally shaken. There is some sunning of the page edges but the pages themselves are clean and bright. There is a water mark on the upper corner of the back cover. There is a mylar dust jacket, however almost half of the front is missing. There is gilt lettering on the remaining portion of the front. The rest of the DJ is intact. ; 13 x 9 3/4 inches; 126 pages .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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. Also known as the back.
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.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
tipped in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
shaken : A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
