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The Life of William Blake: with Selections from his Poems, and other Writing by Gilchrist, Alexander
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: B317
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: MacMillan and Co.,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1863
- Pages: 2 vols. in 1. xiv, 389 pp.; viii, 268 pp
Description
London:: MacMillan and Co.,, 1863. First edition. 8vo,. Illustrated with frontis, text drawings and 11 plates in vol. 1., folding frontis, 21 photolitho plates and 16 other plates. rebound in 1/2 blue morocco and blue boards by Aquarius. Spine lightly sunned, frontis foxed, otherwise very good. "From the Publisher's" inscribed on half title. Bentley classifies this work being of "enormous historical and intrinsic importance for the study and understanding of Blake".
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
foxed : A discoloration to paper, brown and yellowish spots.
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.
half title : The leaf which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at times, the author's name and/or other information may appear.
inscribed : a short note written by the author or a previous owner in the beginning of a book, generally accompanied by a signature.
rebound : A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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