The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love
Carter, Alice A.
Publisher: Harry N....Date published: 2000ISBN: 9780810944374
NY: Harry N. Abrams. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket slightly rubbed.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0810944375 . Index, bibliography, notes. Many photos and illustrations. The story of the household of artist women, including illustrators Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green and muralist Violet Oakley, who set Victorian Philadelphian social sensibilities on end. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 216 pages .
Registration and/or logging into your account gives you access to even more features, including saved searches, want lists, wishlists, search preferences and search history. You can either create an account with us or log in using Facebook below.
number line:A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that particular copy (e.g., a "1" would mean a first printing, and a "29" would indicate a 29th printing).
The following example is of a book that is in its 4th printing from Citadel Press. Note that despite the apparent declaration of "First printing 1997" the number line indicates the actual printing.
Often, the number line does not appear in sequence, as shown below in this first printing from Macmillan. However, the lowest number still indicates the printing:
There may also be times when a number line also contains intended years of publication as well as printings. This number line, for example, describes a first printing, published in 1989 by Harper & Row:
Random House is a notable exception, where for a period of several decades a first printing was indicated with a number line that began with "2", often accompanied by the words "First Edition".
Still other times, publishers may choose to use a letter line rather than a number line, as here shown in a first printing from Harvill Press (the "A" being indicative, rather than a "1"):