Antiques (Vol. LXX, No. 2, August 1956)

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

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.

shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.