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A Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press with a Record of the Prices at which Copies have been Sold Including a New Supplement by Hazen, A.T
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 469
- Edition: Second edition
- Publisher: Yale University Press,
- Place: Yale:
- Date published: `973
- Pages: xxxiv, 300 pp
Description
Yale:: Yale University Press,, `973. Second edition. 8vo,. blue cloth and printed dustjacket. light soiling to jacket, else very good. An excellent check list of Press' output during the years 1757-1797. Very useful bibliographical notations, though the prices are somewhat irrelevant.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
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.
soiling : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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