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Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Biographical Study by Radford, Ernest
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London: : George Newnes: , N.d. 4to,. Illustrated with 57 tipped-in plates. green and gilt embossed cloth corners bumped, else a fine bright copy. An attractive edition of Rossetti's works,
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
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.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
tipped-in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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