The Letters of Horace Walpole in 2 vols by Yonge, C D (ed.)
- Bookseller: High Barn Books
 (GB)
- Seller Inventory #: 131
- Format: Hardback.
- Quantity available: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein
- Date published: 1898
- Pages:
Description
Swan Sonnenschein , 1898 . Hardback. . VG+ hardback, no dustwrapper. Spines are sunned and all edges bumped. Small white (paint?) marks, smears on boards of both vols. Bookplate of previous owners on both vols. Both vols 8vo green boards with gilt decorated red cloth spines. Dark green endpapers. With portraits and illustrations.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dustwrapper : Another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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