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Ornamental Drawing and Architectural Design. With Notes, Historical and Practical by Burn, Robert Scott (ed)
Description
London: : ward and Lock, , 1857. . 8vo, . illustrated. green embossed boards with gilt lettering. Spine sunned, boards bowed, else a good copy. Examples of ornaments containing straight and curved lines, mechanical and freehand architectural renderings, and ornament on textiles.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
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.
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