- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 1889
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition thus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Duckworth
- Place: London
- Date published: 1930
Book Description
London: Duckworth, 1930. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Touch of fraying at head, small notch at heel, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering, errata slip tipped in. 8vo. 278pp.
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.
heel : The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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.
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.
tipped in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
errata : a list correcting errors found after a book has already been printed.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
