- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: BL1562
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Haslewood Books printed for Frederick Etchels and Hugh MacDonald
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1924
Book Description
London:: The Haslewood Books printed for Frederick Etchels and Hugh MacDonald. 1924. hardcover. 2. Small 8vo. Unpaginated, 55 ff. Cream boards, gilt-stamped spine title, t.e.g., dust jacket; jacket chipped. Burndy bookplate. Very good.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for 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.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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).
