- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: J1896
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Iris Books
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1953
Book Description
New York:: Iris Books. 1953. hardcover. 2. First edition. 8vo. 60 pp. 14 color plates, 12 fullpage illustrations. Full red stamped boards, pictorial dust jacket; minor tear to jacket. Very good. . Religious Russian paintings of the Renaissance by anonymous monks. Beautifully illustrated.
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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
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.
