- Bookseller: Argonaut Book Shop
- Seller Inventory #: 877
- Publisher: Rizzoli
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1978
Book Description
New York: Rizzoli, 1978 First American edition. 4to. Illustrated with numerous plates, most full-page and color. Dust jacket spine has 2-inch chip to head, else fine copy. An examination of Cezanne's work..
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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.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
