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The Kelmscott Press and William Morris by Sparling, H. Halliday
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: B541
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: MacMillan and Co.,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1924
- Pages: ix, 177, [2] pp
Description
London:: MacMillan and Co.,, 1924. First edition. 8vo,. Illustrated with frontis portrait and 15 plates. linen backed blue boards with paper spine label. Wear to label, first signature a little loose, otherwise fine. A good history of the Kelmscott Press written by a secretary of the press, who was also incidentally Morris's son-in-law.
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.
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 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.
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