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Doctor Donne & Gargantua The First Six Cantos by Sitwell, Sacheverell
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
(CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 496
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Company and Houghton Mifflin Company,
- Place: London & New York:
- Date published: 1930
- Pages: [80] pp
Description
London & New York:: Gerald Duckworth & Company and Houghton Mifflin Company, , 1930. Small 4to,. blue cloth backed patterned board. Sunned to top of front board and spine, offsetting to ffep, light sporadic spotting, some pages uncut. Limited to 215 numbered copies, signed by the author.
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.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
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.
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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