- Bookseller: Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 27355
- Book condition: A Very Good copy in soiled and chipped dustwrapper.
- Publisher: Yale University Press.
- Place: New Haven.
- Date published: 1926.
Book Description
New Haven.: Yale University Press., 1926.. A Very Good copy in soiled and chipped dustwrapper.. 8vo.. Colour frontis and monochrome plates by Dorothy Lathrop.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
dustwrapper : Another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
soiled : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
