- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 4336
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1940.
Book Description
New York:: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc,, 1940.. Very good red linen 8vo., gilt to spine. Interior clean, tightly bound. Diagrams, illustrations throughout. 32 plates in rear of contemporary successful designs are rippled from water damage. Lacks half of rear fep. Public school pastedown to front pastedown endpaper. Technology. TECH/5093.
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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.
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.
endpaper : The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after printing. One side is glued to the inner portion of the boards (the paste-down) and the other is left loose (free endpaper).
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
