- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 6680
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Williams & Wilkins,
- Place: Baltimore:
- Date published: 1897.
Book Description
Baltimore:: Williams & Wilkins,, 1897.. Oblong quarto. Very good minus in 1/2 green cloth and illustrated cream paper covered boards. Top edge of pages in gilt. Edgewear, with some scuffing and darkening to boards. 1 stain along edge of lower board. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Some foxing to endpapers. Otherwise, interior clean. Black and white illustrations. Maryland. LIT4/7250.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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.
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).
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.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
