- Seller Inventory #: 009187
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Wright & Potter Printing Company
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 1885
- Keywords: GENEALOGY MASSACHUSETTS FAMILIES FAMILY NAMES
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1885. Early reprint. Decorative brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. 426 pp. Printings of acts to change names, listings by county, index of original names, index of adoptive names. Useful for genealogical research in Massachusetts. Ex-reference library, no pocket. Library stamps on page edges, sticker remant inside front board with reference notice, withdrawal stamps. Good condition.. Decorative Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Antique ex-library.
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.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Ex-library : A former library book, generally containing library acquisition and ownership stamped markings, and other typical indications of the library's use.
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).
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
