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Tutti Frutti by [Von Puckler-Muskau, Herman Ludwig Heinrich Furst
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 691
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1834.
- Pages: [5]-226, [2] pp. ads.
Description
New York: : Harper & Brothers, , 1834. . First U.S. edition. . 8vo, . boards with paper spine label, Boards and label soiled, wear to extremities, spotting to prelims. with half of first blank torn away, light waterstaining to upper portion of gutter affecting c. half of text, but not too bad. Herman Ludwig Von Puckler-Muskau (1785-1871) was a German prince and self-taught landscape garden designer, who made two extended garden tours of England.
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.
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.
soiled : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
gutter : The inside margin of a book, the edge of the pages nearing the binding.
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