- Seller Inventory #: SJ5416
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Illustrator: Plates
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1923
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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Owner's bookplate on fep, otherwise textblock is clean and tight. Lightly bumped corners; no dust jacket; 356pp., including index. . Boards, Cloth Spine. Very Good. Illus. by Plates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
