- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: C0000339
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Edition: First American edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Wm. Poyntell
- Place: Philadelphia
- Date published: 1806
Book Description
Philadelphia: Wm. Poyntell. 1806. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. First American Edition. 1806. Hardcover. 8vo. 547pp. First U.S. edition of this edition. Full brown leather, red leather spine label, gilt titles. Good. Heavy rubbing to boards, leather cracked, occasional spots of loss to leather, joints cracked, front hinge loose, water stain to upper righthand corner of first 120 pages, foxing, bookplate to front pastedow, former owner's signature on flyleaf.
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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.
cracked : In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate, revealing the stitching or binding underneath.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
