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Letter and Sketches from the New Hebrides by Paton, Maggie Whitecross
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 665
- Edition: Third edition revised
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1895.
- Pages: xi, [3], 382, [2] pp. ads.
Description
London: : Hodder & Stoughton, , 1895. . Third edition revised. 8vo, . Illustrated with frontis, plates and a map. green cloth with gilt vignette of a palm tree on front cover. Upper portion of front cover mottled, dampstaining to lower margin of frontis portrait and to blank margins of last 50 pages and endpapers. A fair to good copy. Maggie Paton was the second wife of missionary John G. Paton who settled with him in Aniwa in the New Hebrides. "Her account of life on Aniwa is by turns high spirited and despairing-the latter particularly when one by one her children are sent for their own safety to live with relatives in Australia; it is less saccharine than many a missionary's tale and one of the most often reprinted of them all". (Robinson).
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.
Fair : is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, jacket (if any), etc., may also be worn. All defects must be noted. (defined by AB Bookman's Weekly)
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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