BAROQUE CHURCHES OF CENTRAL EUROPE by Bourke, John. Photographs by Thomas Finkenstaedt
- Bookseller: Commonwealth Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 409952
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London : Faber and Faber, 1958
Description
London : Faber and Faber, 1958. 8vo. Cloth. 289 pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 66 b/w photographs, as well as four maps and ground plans. Dust jacket sun-faded at spine, edgeworn, chipped at head and heel of spine and corners, and price-clipped. Light rubbing to extremities, discreet bookseller’s label to rear pastedown, else very good in a good plus dust jacket.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
heel : The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. 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.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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