- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 3838
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First American Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Scribners
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1904
Book Description
New York: Scribners, 1904. First American Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, spine/edges show even, light sunning, discrete booksellers plate on front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, teg, frontispiece, printed tissue guards. 4to. xiv, 410pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index. Illustrated with 16 exceptional photogravure plates with printed tissue guards. Overall, a very handsome copy. Available as a pair with Williams' "Queen Margot" for $100.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
TEG : Top Edge Gilt
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
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.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
