- Bookseller: Argosy Book Store
- Seller Inventory #: 31285
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: very good(+)
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Neff
- Place: Esslingen
- Date published: 1913
Book Description
Esslingen: Neff, 1913. Reprint. hardcover. very good(+). Vierte, vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. 33 plates, most in color, 453 text illus. 632pp. Small thick 4to, brown cloth. Esslingen: Paul Neff, 1913. A very good(+) copy.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
