- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 11194
- Book condition: Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Sampson, Low, Son, & Co,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1857.
Book Description
London:: Sampson, Low, Son, & Co,. 1857.. Good. 8vo, 480 pp, uncut, ads (xii). Original green blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on spine. A few marks on front cover and corners rubbed. New endpapers, edges of pages a little browned, and some slight fox spotting, o/w a good copy.
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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.
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.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
