- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 4978
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Place: Cambridge, MA
- Date published: 1986
Book Description
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Ownership signature at front pastedown, signed by author at half title, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Beige cloth boards, brown ink lettering, orange endpages. Square 8vo. 278pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Notes. Glossary. Index. Laid in related ephemera. Inscribed by the author to noted architectural writer, J. Sadler. From the library of noted architect and writer on architecture, J. Sadler. Sadler was prone to marginalia and laying in clippings and ephemera related to a given book’s subject. The presence of marginal notes or marks will be noted above and are absent if not so noted.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. 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 folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
half title : The leaf which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at times, the author's name and/or other information may appear.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
inscribed : a short note written by the author or a previous owner in the beginning of a book, generally accompanied by a signature.
laid in : something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper.
marginalia : Notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
