- Bookseller: marilyn braiterman rare books
- Seller Inventory #: 2005
- Format: H Cloth and Pictorial Boards
- Book condition: Very Good.
- Illustrator: Hoytema..
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Tresling
- Place: Amsterdam
- Date published: 1904
Book Description
Amsterdam: Tresling. 1904. Square 8vo. H Cloth and Pictorial Boards. Very Good.. Square 8vo, original blue cloth spine and lithographed pictorial and lettered boards. Little shaken else fine. Title page and 36 pages of color lithograph plates with captions by a fine Dutch artist who specialized in bird and animal illustration in a style combining Art Nouveau with a touch of japonisme. Each plate with large image on top of a small one which contains the lettered text.
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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.
title page : A page where the title of the book, the author's name and publication information usually appear.
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.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
shaken : A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
