- Bookseller: Aleph-Bet Books, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 26529
- Book condition: 2
- Illustrator: BROOKE,L.LESLIE
- Binding: Hardcover
- Date published: 1911
Book Description
1911. 2. BROOKE,L.LESLIE. TAILOR AND THE CROW. Lond & NY:Warne, no date [1911, this not 1st]. Small 8vo, pictorial boards, edges rubbed some else VG. Featuring 6 marvelous color plates plus pictorial endpapers and 31 drawings in text to accompany this nursery story.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
vg : Very Good condition. can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Any defects must be noted. (defined by AB Bookman's Weekly)
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.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
