- Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 013480
- Format: Buckram
- Book condition: A bit of spotting to cloth; about Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase
- Illustrator: Leslie Saalburg
- Publisher: Limited Editions Club
- Place: [New York]
- Date published: 1963
Book Description
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. buckram. A bit of spotting to cloth; about Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase. Leslie Saalburg. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8") bound in buckram with a white spine and red boards with a small oval decorative device in gilt on a white background at the center of the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 color tipped-in plates by Leslie Saalburg. Copy #970 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
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.
colophon : The last text portion of a book, which contains information about the publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possible a printer's device.
device : A printers mark which usually appears on either the colophon or the title page.
buckram : A cloth made of cotton or linen which is used to cover a book.
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.
tipped-in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
