- Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 10076
- Format: Hardcover
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Smith, Elder, & Company
- Place: London
- Date published: 1897
Book Description
London Smith, Elder, & Company 1897 Hardcover 300 pp. Octavo. Red cloth with gilt stamped title and author on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Gentle discoloring to backstrip. Subtle bumping and rubbing to corners. Frontis detached and laid in. All twelve Robert Sauber illustrations present. At head of front board is a gilt stamped silhouette of an army after Sauber's design for the Queen. Green/Gibson A21a
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been cut into eight pages.
bumping : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
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.
laid in : something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
