- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 12293
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good +
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: D. Appleton,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1869.
Book Description
New York:: D. Appleton,. 1869.. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, 478pp, ads (ii). Brown cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Rear cover dusty, spine sunned. Internally, handwritten pencil notes at rear, o/w very good. Pierre Blot opened the first school of French cooking, the New York Cooking Academy, in New York in 1865.
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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.
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.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
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.
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
