- Bookseller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Seller Inventory #: 10102
- Format: Octavo,
- Illustrator: Profusely illustrated. One hundred plates, many colored. Charts on endpapers.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Franco Colombo,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: (1970) 1970.
Book Description
New York:: Franco Colombo,, (1970) 1970.. First edition. . Octavo,. Profusely illustrated. One hundred plates, many colored. Charts on endpapers. . decorated maroon cloth, gilt
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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.
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.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. 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.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
