ORIENTAL CARPETS RUNNERS & RUGS AND SOME JACQUARD REPRODUCTIONS (1910)
- Bookseller: Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 2951
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Adams & Charles Black
- Place: London
- Date published: 1910
Description
London: Adams & Charles Black. Very Good 1910. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth with gilt designs & lettering. Tight clean & intact copy. Front hinge mended: cover firmly attached. Pictorial frontispiece. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated with 24 color plates & B/W Illus. Antiques, Oriental Rugs ; Color & B/W Illus. ; Thick 4to 11" - 13" tall; 428 pages .
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
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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