- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: m003315
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Edition: Ediiton Not Stated, Presumed First
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Government Printing Office
- Place: Washington D.C.
- Date published: 1900
Book Description
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1900. Ediiton Not Stated, Presumed First. Hardcover. Very Good. HARDCOVER. Very Good, with No Jacket. Slight wear & soil to cover & DJ. This is a former Rectory or Seminary copy, with: Spine tagging, Book Plate, Stamp to title page, Corners lightly bumped, but otherwise shown care and respect. Pages: 223, Front inner hinge weak, wear to the top of the spine, soil to endpapers. 8vo.
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DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for 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.
title page : A page where the title of the book, the author's name and publication information usually appear.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
bumped : 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.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
