- Seller Inventory #: 10405
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: B&W & Color Photographs
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Banco De La Republica
- Place: Bogota, Columbia
- Date published: 1954
- Keywords: Gold Museum Masterpieces, Art
Bogota, Columbia: Banco De La Republica, 1954 Book block clean and tight. Moderate wear to wraps.. Wraps. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by B&W & Color Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
wraps : The paper covering on the outside of a paperback.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.