- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: M09987
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Charles C. Thomas
- Place: Springfield, IL:
- Date published: 1967
Book Description
Springfield, IL:: Charles C. Thomas. 1967. hardcover. 2. Tall 8vo. xxiii, 686 pp. Color plates, photos, illustrations, tables, indexes. Red cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket; jacket torn on top spine edge; small ink notation on front pastedown. 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.
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.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
