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About Advertising and Printing: A Concise, Practical, and Original Manual on the Art of Local Advertising
by Fowler, Nathaniel C., Jr
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Bibliographic Details
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: L. Barta & Co., Publishers
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 1889
Book Description
Boston: L. Barta & Co., Publishers, 1889. 160 pages; Cloth covers show rubbing along edges and a couple of smudges and scuffs on front covers; Brown stamped lettering and ruled lines remain bright; Lower corner of blank front end page shows a fold crease; Occasional light smudges; Small chips just along lower edge of two leaves; Volume remains tight and otherwise clean, being free of markings, book plates, etc.; Fairly nice copy of this first edition of a title that appears scarce in any printing.. First Edition. Cloth - Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket. 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 tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use. plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. 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. 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.
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