- Seller Inventory #: 21690
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: Good (in mylar)
- Illustrator: B&W Photographs & Drawings
- Edition: Seventeenth Impression
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 1927
- Keywords: Architecture, History, Medieval Art, Medieval Philosophy, Theology
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927 Text block clean and tight in lightly edge-worn binding. Jacket is spine-faded, moderately edge-chipped and worn, and is separated at the front hinge. 401 pp. w/index.. Seventeenth Impression. Boards, Cloth Spine. Very Good+/Good (in mylar). Illus. by B&W Photographs & Drawings. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" 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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.