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The Habitant and other French-Canadian Poems by Drummond, William Henry
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 735
- Edition: Twelfth thousand.
- Publisher: G.P. Putnam\'s Sons,
- Place: New York and London:
- Date published: 1899.
- Pages: 137 pp.
Description
New York and London: : G.P. Putnam's Sons, , 1899. . Twelfth thousand. . 8vo, . Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. green cloth with gilt portrait. Slight wear to extremities, inscription to ffep else a nice bright copy. The author's first book.
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.
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.
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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