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Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Routledge, Edmund
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 156
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: George Routledge and Sons,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1867
- Pages: [xvi], 772, [4] pp
Description
London:: George Routledge and Sons,, 1867. LRg. 8vo,. Illustrated with engraved and chromolithograph plates. red and gilt embossed cloth. Boards soiled, spine and corners rubbed, front hinge about loose, text block clean. Full of interesting short stories, games, puzzles and general trivia.
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.
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 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.
soiled : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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