- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 23030
- Format: Hard Cover.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Princeton University Press,
- Place: Princeton and Oxford:
- Date published: (2009).
Book Description
Princeton and Oxford:: Princeton University Press,, (2009).. Hard Cover.. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards with gilt tilte to spine. Light bumping to top right corner of front board. Pristine interior with illustrations throughout. Black illustrated dust jacket with grey title to front and spine panels. Index, 312 pages. FILM/021510. Near Fine in Fine DJ.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
bumping : 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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
