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The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff by Blind, Mathilde [trans]
Description
London:: Cassell & Company,, 1890. First edition. 8vo,. green cloth. Spines sunned, name on ffep but otherwise very good. The autobiography of a young female 19th Century Russian artist whose short life was chronicled in her diary.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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