- Seller Inventory #: SJ5842
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Illustrator: Charles Robinson Color Plates
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place: Philadelphia
- Date published: 1912
- Keywords: Handasyde, Garden Stories, the Haunted Garden, the Old-Fashioned Garden, the Poor Man's Garden, the Rich Man's Garden
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1912. 161pp. Illustrated end papers Textblock is very clean and tight, with no previous ownership notations, no underlining or marginalia; gilt embossed, plum cloth binding is lightly shelf worn; all illustrations faced with Japanese paper tissue guards, with captions. . Illustrated Cloth. Very Good+. Illus. by Charles Robinson Color Plates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent 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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
