- Seller Inventory #: 006574
- Book condition: Good
- Illustrator: Ilus. b/w Ernest H. Shepard
- Edition: No Other Date
- Publisher: J. Saville & Co., Ltd.
- Place: London (nd)
- Date published: 1927
- Keywords: Ernest, H, Shepard, Poems
London (nd): J. Saville & Co., Ltd.. Good. 1927. No Other Date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Medium blue covers, with gilt silhouettes, and lettering, bit faded, lightly stained, and little worn edges. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Few smudges in contents, but mostly clean and nice. A nice copy. Poems by Georgett Agnew. .
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.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
