- Bookseller: Stuart Bennett Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: 8400
- Binding: Hardcover
- Place: London: Benjamin L. Green,
- Date published: 1850
Book Description
London: Benjamin L. Green, 1850. viii, 160pp., sm. 8vo. Part color-printed and hand-colored frontispiece, and four uncoloured woodcut plates by Dickes, with the half-title. Nice copy in the original green cloth, upper cover and spine elaborately gilt, g.e.; just a little wear at spine head. First edition. Almost all the contributions are by the Sargents, and many on wintry subjects, with the frontispiece showing a particularly nice winter scene full of children. Three copies (Florida, Florida State, and U.C. Davis) in OCLC; three more in COPAC.
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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.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. 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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.