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Ride A-Cock Horse to Banbury + & A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare by Caldecott, R
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
(CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 1064
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: George Routledge & Sons,
- Place: [London]:
- Date published: N.D. [c.1884]
- Pages: 22 pp
Description
[London]: : George Routledge & Sons, , N.D. [c.1884]. Oblong 8vo,. original pictorial wraps, short closed tear to upper wrap. old tape residue to lower wrap, some light spotting throughout, but still a decent copy. R. Caldecott's One Shilling Picture Books.
wraps : The paper covering on the outside of a paperback.
pictorial wraps : Indicates that the covers of a paperback are decorated with a pitcure of some sort.
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.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
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