A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens. King Penguin 1946
by Charles Dickens
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Dickens. Charles. Christmas Carol. King Penguin. 1946. Small 8vo. No K32. 1946 138 pages plus 4full page colour plates By John Leech. Red ribbed paper boards with gilt title and decoration to front and spine. With unclipped dustwrapper, a little chipped at edges. One small tear without loss to page 133 otherwise binding, pages and illustrations are in fine condition and dustwrapper in excellent clean condition. A very rare opportunity to acquire this seasonal gem.
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. 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. chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges. gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example. 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.
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