- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: M4210
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Sheridan House
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1943
Book Description
New York:: Sheridan House. 1943. hardcover. 2. 8vo. xii, 444 pp. Numerous figs., 42 plates, bibliog., index. Beige cloth, dust-jacket; inner hinge cracked, jacket chipped, lacks front flap. Very good. . Scarce in jacket.
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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
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
cracked : In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate, revealing the stitching or binding underneath.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
