- Seller Inventory #: 16331
- Format: Hardcover
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Place: Cambridge, MA
- Date published: 1965
- Keywords: Philosophy of criticism. Aesthetics - art.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Hardcover in dustjacket. 8vo. Sixth printing. Book is in Near Fine condition, with a previous owner's name penned to front endpaper. Jacket is in Fine condition. Contains several of Pepper's lectures, delivered in 1945 at Harvard. A clean, attractive copy. Not price-clipped. In protective mylar. 177 pp. including index.
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
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.
endpaper : The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after printing. One side is glued to the inner portion of the boards (the paste-down) and the other is left loose (free endpaper).
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
