- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 4531
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First American Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London House & Maxwell
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1963
Book Description
New York: London House & Maxwell , 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, gift inscription at ffep, ownership signature at front pastedown, light foxing at preliminaries and near plate pages, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, light toning/soiling, price-clipped, else bright. Blue cloth boards, red ink label, gilt lettering and decorative elements, frontispiece, purple topstain. 8vo. Bibliography. Index. 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.
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.
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
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.
