Book Description
[Paris]: Beauger & Cie, 1840.. Quarto (31 x 23.8 cm). Late 19th century cloth and marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label, original wrappers bound in (upper wrapper pictorial, lower wrapper unprinted). Scattered foxing, binding a bit rubbed and hand- soiled, but very good. A charming album made up solely of twelve original monochrome plates of children, lithographed by Coulon after Gavarni's designs.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
Marbled boards : A hardcover book with a decorative, multi-colored paper on the outside covering.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
wrappers : Paperback or softbound. Also, wraps.
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.
soiled : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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.
