- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 1316
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: Fourth Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: T.C. & E.C. Jack
- Place: London
- Date published: 1928
Book Description
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1928. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, corners gently bumped, subtle splash mark on one board, light foxing (mostly focused +/- plate pages), prior owner signature on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, deckled edges. 8vo. 504pp. and 524pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Appendix. Overall, a very handsome set of this significant and classic gardening volume. Wonderful plates throughout.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
