- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 2683
- Format: Hard Cover.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1916.
Book Description
New York:: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1916.. Hard Cover.. 4to. Very good- blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Fading to gilt on spine. Minor wear to spine ends, edges, and corners as well as light rubbing to boards. Light foxing on several pages throughout and heavier foxing on front and rear end pages as well as title page though text and illustrations remain clean and bright. Previous owner's book plate to front paste down. Color plates with commentary by writers, including Chesterton and Belloc; 305 pp. Art. ART/11112. Very Good -.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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.
title page : A page where the title of the book, the author's name and publication information usually appear.
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.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
