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Scenes in the East. Consisting of 12 Coloured Photographic Views of Places Mentioned in the Bible, With descriptive Letter-Press by Tristram, Rev. H.B
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 1349
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1870
- Pages: 49 pp
Description
London: : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, , 1870. 4to, . Illustrated with 12 colour plates. pictorial cloth, cloth faded, lower edge stained, pages brittle with some loose, needs either a rebind or broken up and sold as plates, plates generally clean with some minor soiling in margins. Views of Bethlehem, Nazareth, Sidon, Jerico, Gaza and Joppa.
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.
soiling : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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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