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Bewick Memento with an Introduction by Robert Robinson. Catalogue with Purchasers' Names and Prices Realised of the Scarce and Curious Collection of Books, Silver Plates...Etc by [Bewick, Thomas]
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: B559
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Field & Tuer and Scribner & Welford,
- Place: London and New York:
- Date published: [1884]
- Pages: [vi], [18], 40, [7] pp
Description
London and New York:: Field & Tuer and Scribner & Welford,, [1884]. 4to,. 1/2 cloth and marbled boards with paper title label to front. Extremities rubbed, bookplate, endpapers offset, very light sporadic foxing to the first couple of pages, otherwise basically very good.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
Marbled boards : A hardcover book with a decorative, multi-colored paper on the outside covering.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
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.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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