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Winter Joys for Girls and Boys by [Anon]
Description
London: : T. Nelson and Sons, , n.d. . 4to. Illustrated with colour plates and text engravings. cloth backed pictorial boards. Boards scuffed, corners bumped, ffep and last page browned, a few spots or stains to blank margins but on the whole bright . Snowtime games and activities including a look at an igloo of Zaksriner, a little Eskimo girl from Alaska. Uncommon.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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