- Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
- Seller Inventory #: 12331
- Book condition: vg
- Publisher: Arkitektens Forlag F. Hendriksens
- Place: N/P
- Date published: N/D
Book Description
N/P Arkitektens Forlag F. Hendriksens N/D vg 8vo. 384pp. Illustrated orange wrappers. Minor shelf wear and scuffing. A great book covering Danish architecture from 1879-1979. Beautifully illustrated with full page-and in-text color and b/w plates. Text in Danish, English and German. In very good condition.
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vg : Very Good condition. can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Any defects must be noted. (defined by AB Bookman's Weekly)
wrappers : Paperback or softbound. Also, wraps.
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.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.