- Seller Inventory #: 008360
- Format: Pictorial Cover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: Nineteenth Edition
- Publisher: Metaframe
- Place: Maywood, NJ
- Date published: 1966
- Keywords: Tropical Fish
Maywood, NJ: Metaframe, 1966. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nineteenth Edition. 593 pp. The cover is slightly shelf-soiled, and rubbed at the head and foot of the spine. The binding is tight and square. Over 500 illustrations, with more than 100 full-color plates. Keywords: Tropical Fish.
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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
