- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 12842
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition:
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Calmann Levy,
- Place: Paris:
- Date published: 1895.
Book Description
Paris:: Calmann Levy,. 1895.. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 328 pp, teg. One half dark red calf with red marbled boards. Gilt title and author at spine with five raised bands. Spine gently rubbed at edges; corners also gently rubbed esp upper corner at back cover. Internally, pages lightly toned, o/w very good, with red marbled end papers and no signature or bookplate. In French.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
Marbled boards : A hardcover book with a decorative, multi-colored paper on the outside covering.
TEG : Top Edge Gilt
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.
raised band(s) : On leather bound books, the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine.
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.
calf : Leather binding made from calfskin. Most common form of leather binding.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
