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Silver: Pewter: Sheffield Plate by Burgess, Fred W
- Bookseller: Royoung bookseller, Inc.
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 2378
- Quantity available: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: George Routledge
- Date published: 1921
Description
George Routledge, 1921. 8vo, with eighty full black and white plates. List of illustrations. Index.Owner inscription. Edges spotted. Orig. dark green cloth with gilt front cover design bright and clean. Bevelled edges. Fine. <p>INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS PLEASE CALCULATE APPROPRIATE SHIPPING COSTS BEFORE PURCHASE </p> 8vo, with eighty full black and white plates. List of illustrations. Index.Owner inscription. Edges spotted. Orig. dark green cloth with gilt front cover design bright and clean. Bevelled edges. Fine.
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. Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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