- Seller Inventory #: 12507
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Illustrator: B&W Photographs & Drawings; 1 Color Plate
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Blakiston Company
- Place: Philadelphia
- Date published: 1949
- Keywords: Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry Textbook, Science
Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1949 ffep excised, with numerous ink notations on the fep, and underlining of the table of atomic weights, otherwise book block clean and tight. binding rubbed, faded and edge-worn; 817pp, including index, plus a 49-page section of answers to chapter questions;. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by B&W Photographs & Drawings; 1 Color Plate. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
