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A Hand-Book for Visitors to Cambridge by Deck, Norris
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 1087
- Edition: Second edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: William Metcalfe,
- Place: Cambridge:
- Date published: 1862
- Pages: viii, 260 pp
Description
Cambridge: : William Metcalfe, , 1862. Second edition. 8vo,. Illustrated with hand-coloured map and 8 steel engravings, 1/2 morocco and marbled boards, rubbed along joints, ffep torn, plates a little toned, but on the whole quite good. A scarce book on the colleges, churches and town of Cambridge.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
Marbled boards : A hardcover book with a decorative, multi-colored paper on the outside covering.
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
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