- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: BL1223
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: For the author
- Place: [Rochester]:
- Date published: 1912
Book Description
[Rochester]:: For the author. 1912. hardcover. 2. 8vo. 228 pp. Frontis., plates. Maroon cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles, t.e.g.; spine faded, faint marginal stain to p. 1. Small sticker on spine. Burndy bookplate. Very good. . Author presented this copy to the New Hampshire Historical Society (with the Society's bookplate).
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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.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.