First American Edition. Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. White blind stamped cloth over boards, illustrated endpapers, 135 pages, Bibliography, captions to the illustrations, forty-two color, sixty-eight black-and-white photographs, sixteen line drawings. In a color illustrated dust jacket that is lightly toned, very lightly bumped along top edges, top corners and head of spine. In a very good slipcase which is sunned around the perimeter. "This book covers the various languages and scripts used at different times, kinds of writing implements, subjects considered worth recording in books, book illustration, and the great finds of early books in the excavations of the 19th and 20th centuries. The transition from the papyrus roll to the codex - made first of papyrus, later parchment and finally paper - is the framework around which all these and many other aspects of the development of the book are dealt with." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 6 oz. Category: Books on Books; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 009741.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Origins of the Book: Egypt's Contribution to the Development of the Book from Papyrus to Codex

Publisher

New York Graphic Society Ltd, Greenwich, Connecticut

Publication Date

1972

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Dennis Holzman Antiques is located at 111 Remsen St., Cohoes, New York. In addition to antiques, manuscripts, fine art and collectibles, we sell used, rare, and out-of-print books both in our store and on-line. We pack carefully and ship promptly. Our telephone number is: 518 326-2061 (Tuesday - Friday, 11-5 Eastern time; Saturdays 11-3 Eastern Time); our e-mail is: info@holzmanantiques.com.

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