- Bookseller: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 5576
- Book condition:
- Publisher: Printed by L. Van Leer & Co. Ltd. for the Shell Company of Nigeria Ltd.
- Place: London
- Date published: 1960
Book Description
London: Printed by L. Van Leer & Co. Ltd. for the Shell Company of Nigeria Ltd.. 1960. Lg. 4to. 104pp. Illustrated with 48 photo-litho plates printed in color, each with a facing page of description. Publisher's deluxe full blue morocco stamped in gilt, minor rubbing of front hinge. A.e.g.
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rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
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.
