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Prairie and Forest: A Description of the Game of North America, with Personal Adventures in their Pursuit by Gillmore, Parker
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 130
- Edition: First American edition
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1874
- Pages: 378, 6 pp
Description
New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1874. First American edition. 8vo,. Illustrated. green cloth with gilt spine lettering and a vignette of hunting and fishing implements. Extremities rubbed, staining to lower edge of textblock in areas, mostly affecting blank margins but occasionally affecting a few plates. Game birds, fish and animals of North America.
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.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
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 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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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