- Bookseller: Boston Book Company
- Seller Inventory #: 60120
- Binding: Hardcover
- Date published: 1876
Book Description
1876. HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert. ETCHING & ETCHERS. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. First American edition. Illustrated with 11 of 12 plates; lacks #12, "Poplars and Oaks," by Hamerton. Octavo. xxxii,459 pp. Green pictorial cloth, printed with black and stamped in gilt. Publisher's catalog tipped-in at front endpapers; ink ownership stamp to flyleaf. Binding is shaken, with slight splitting to lower joint, fraying to heel and crown, darkening to spine, and with slight rubbing and light soiling to cloth overall. Hinges have hairline cracks. Text leaves are lightly toned at edges and mostly clean but for some occasional light foxing. Plates are clean. It is offered as is.
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rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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 cut into eight pages.
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.
heel : The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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.
leaves : When used to refer to a part of a book means the book's pages.
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.
soiling : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
tipped-in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
shaken : A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
