- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: SGG10768
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Place: Oxford:
- Date published: 1954
Book Description
Oxford:: Clarendon Press. 1954. hardcover. 2. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. viii, 343 pp. Color frontis., 52 fig., 39 tables, refs., index. Navy cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket; corners slightly bumped, jacket chipped. Ownership rubber stamp of M.W. Strickberger. Very good.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
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.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
