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Flowers of Delight culled by Leonard de Vries from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books by De Vries, Leonard
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
(CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 164
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Limited,
- Place: Toronto:
- Date published: 1965
- Pages: 232 pp
Description
Toronto:: McClelland and Stewart Limited,, 1965. 4to,. Illustrated. cloth and dust jacket. Fine. A selection of pre-Victorian children's poems, nursery rhyms, chapbooks and stories. Nicely illustrated.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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