- Bookseller: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 3963
- Book condition:
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Perrotin, Editeur.
- Place: Paris
- Date published: 1835
Book Description
Paris: Perrotin, Editeur.. 1835. Lg. 8vo. 2 vols. (4),viii,394;(4),346pp. Illustrated with 15 engraved plates (1 a frontispiece portrait) and a folding facsimile letter. 19th cent. red calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Some text foxing.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
Marbled boards : A hardcover book with a decorative, multi-colored paper on the outside covering.
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.
calf : Leather binding made from calfskin. Most common form of leather binding.
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.
facsimile : An exact copy of an original work.
