- Seller Inventory #: 18748
- Book condition: NF/VG
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
- Place: London
- Date published: 1963
- Pages: 222 pp.
- Keywords: Australia, Exploration, Burke, Wills, Outback
London : Hamish Hamilton , 1963 . First Edition . NF/VG . 8VO . The Burke and Wills expedition to the Australian Outback. Illustrated with black and white plates. Light overall edgewear to unpricelipped jacket, chipping to spine extremities.
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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
