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The Wreck of the White Bear, East Indiaman by Ross, [Ellen Edith Alice]
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 1407
- Edition: Fourth edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: John Lovell,
- Place: Montreal:
- Date published: 1871
- Pages: 2 vols. in 1. [7]-302 pp.; 246 pp
Description
Montreal: : John Lovell, , 1871. Fourth edition. 8vo,. Illustrated with 10 colour plates, green cloth, extremities rubbed and spotted, name to ffep, scattered spotting, a bit musty, else good.
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.
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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