- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 3293
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition Thus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1912
Book Description
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, hint of toning at spine, two small scuffs at rear board and small stain, light fraying at head and heel, owner inscription on ffep, crease at ffep, hint of toning/foxing at endpages, several of the longer plates have small corner creases (one moderate), else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative endpages, teg, frontispiece, tipped in plates. Small 4to. 265pp. Illus. (color plates). Appendix. Translated by Alfred Sutro. Noted flaws notwithstanding, this is rather handsome copy of this wonderful, illustrated edition.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
TEG : Top Edge Gilt
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.
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.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
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.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
tipped in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
