- Bookseller: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 3199
- Book condition:
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: At the Clarendon Press.
- Place: Oxford
- Date published: 1967
Book Description
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press.. 1967. First edition. Lg. 8vo. xii,182,(2)pp. Index. Plus 29 plates. Orig. blue cloth, gilt. Dj. Presentation copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
front free endpaper : The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book. It may be plain or decorative.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
