- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 3277
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The World Publishing Company,
- Place: Cleveland:
- Date published: 1968.
Book Description
Cleveland:: The World Publishing Company,, 1968.. Very good folio, cloth & gilt boards in very good- illustrated dust jacket with white title to front panel and black title spine. Four closed tears and 2 open tears to edges of jacket. Insides clean, 92 color tipped-in plates, 31 b/w plates; 173 pp. Russian Art. ART/1243.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
folio : a large book size, generally 15" in height or larger.
tipped-in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
Closed tears : Tears in which no material has been lost.
