- Seller Inventory #: 20856
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: B&W Frontispiece
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Missouri Lodge of Research
- Place: Fulton, MO
- Date published: 1963
- Keywords: Freemasonry, Masonic Lodge, Masonic Literature, Masonic Dogma, Masonic Research & History
Fulton, MO: Missouri Lodge of Research, 1963 Name written on front free end paper. Text block clean and tight in lightly to moderately edge-worn binding; spine cloth gently creased down the center; 459 pp. w/index. Green Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by B&W Frontispiece. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
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.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
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.
