- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 5705
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition Thus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
- Place: New Castle, Del.
- Date published: 2000
Book Description
New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering patterned endpages, frontispiece. 4to. 332pp plus np plates (approx. 360pp). Illus. (color and b/w plates). Notes. Index. Richly illustrated and very well researched. Arguably the most complete work to date on Hunter and his work. A very handsome copy.
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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.
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.
