- Bookseller: Argosy Book Store
- Seller Inventory #: 59094
- Format: Hardcover
- Binding: Hardcover
Book Description
hardcover. Frontispiece portrait. 311pp plus ads. Short thick 8vo, red cloth. London: Methuen, (1913). Very good. A biography of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
