- Seller Inventory #: 11399
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: Color Illustrations
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred Savage
- Place: Oxford, UK
- Keywords: Oxford England
Oxford, UK: Alfred Savage This is a beautiful old book - no publishing date given, but circa early 1900's; It has a few pages of advertising in the back. Book block clean and tight. A couple of pages have foxing. Cover hand-soiled, rubbed and moderately worn.. Cloth Spine w/cloth Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Color Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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
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.
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.
