- Bookseller: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 5844
- Book condition:
- Edition: y First published edition.
- Publisher: Chatto and Windus.
- Place: London
- Date published: 1890
Book Description
London: Chatto and Windus.. 1890. y First published edition.. Sm. 8vo. 30pp. Unopened. Orig. brown printed wrappers. Endpapers lightly foxed, but still a fine copy.
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wrappers : Paperback or softbound. Also, wraps.
foxed : A discoloration to paper, brown and yellowish spots.
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.
unopened : A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional method for printing and binding books in which a large sheet of paper was printed with several pages, folded, and bound into the book. . Sometimes inappropriately called uncut
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
