Book Description
Watkins, Lura Woodside. Cambridge Glass 1818 to 1888. The Story of the New England Glass Company. Little Brown & Co, Boston 1930, 1st edition. 8vo, 199pp, b&w ills throughout. Orig. blue gilt cloth, pic. pastedown on front cover, printed dj slt. dusty o/w fine/fine.
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DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
sl. : slight
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
