- Seller Inventory #: 004289
- Book condition: Good
- Edition: First Edition BAL 9584
- Publisher: Houghton, Osgood and Company
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 1879
- Keywords: The, Riverside, Press, Cambridge
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company. Good. 1879. First Edition BAL 9584. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Spine tips little frayed, and corners bumped. Front endpaper creased/contents lightly browned, else nice. .
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.
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).
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
