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Town and Country Papers by SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH, Illustrated by Geo. Denholm Armour
- Bookseller: Corner-Stone Bookshop
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 000333
- Format: Cloth
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Quantity available: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons
- Place: Edinburgh
- Date published: 1929
Description
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. Cloth. Cloth. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. Literature. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Edited w/intro by E.D. Cuming. Beautiful colored plates and half-tones. Red cover with gilt lettering on cover & spine. Cracks along hinges. Spine a bit faded. . Good. 1929.
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.
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.
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.
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