- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 13875
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition:
- Edition: Limited edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Societe des Beaux Arts.
- Place: Paris:
Book Description
Paris:: Societe des Beaux Arts.. Limited edition. Hardcover. Salon Edition, limited to 550 copies, of which this is number 26. Tall 8vo, color frontis, 166pp, teg, illustrations by Raphael Collin. One half dark green leather with gray green marbled boards. Gilt floral motifs at spine w gilt title and raised bands, very good. Internally, slt fox spotting to edges of some plates, o/w very good. Mildly erotic.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
Marbled boards : A hardcover book with a decorative, multi-colored paper on the outside covering.
TEG : Top Edge Gilt
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.
raised band(s) : On leather bound books, the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
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.
sl. : slight
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
