- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 11360
- Format: Cloth
- Book condition: Very good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: James Parker And Co.,
- Place: Oxford:
- Date published: 1875.
Book Description
Oxford:: James Parker And Co.,. 1875.. Cloth. Very good. 8vo, 288 pp, b&w frontis, b&w illustrations throughout; 145 wood cuts and 26 steel plate engravings. A folding color map of Oxford at the end; ads (viii). Light fox spotting on ffep and on verso of some plates; o/w very clean. Red cloth cover with pictorial gilt title on cover, "Handbook for Oxford". Gilt title on stamped spine. Hinge starting at top inch and half, but holding. Top edge gilt.
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top edge gilt : The top of the text block (the edges the pages that are visible when looking directly down at the top of a closed book) has been decorated with a gold-like finish.
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.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
verso : The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
