- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: Z1605
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 11
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Privately Printed by the Plimpton Press
- Place: Norwood:
- Date published: 1933
Book Description
Norwood:: Privately Printed by the Plimpton Press. 1933. hardcover. 11. 8vo. xiv, (xv), 376 pp. Frontis. port. of Sabine with tissue guard, half- title, 8 plates, index. Red cloth, gilt-stamped cover signature and spine title, t.e.g., dust-jacket; jacket has some minor tears. Bookplate, inked gift presentation inscription on half-title, small newspaper obituary headline on half-title, lacking front free fly-leaf. Very good.
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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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
