THE ENGLISH BIBLE by Grierson, Sir Herbert
- Bookseller: IndyBook Lady
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 22667
- Format: Hardcover; 3rd Printing
- Book condition: Collins; Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Binding: Hardcover
- Date published: 1947
Description
Collins; Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover; 3rd Printing. B0007JB25Q . Fine in DJ w/ rubbing and edgewear. 8 color plates and 21 stunning B&W illustrations depicting the influence of the Old and New Testaments in the imagination and language of the English people. Includes a brief genealogy of the English bible. Art reproduced from museums and private sources. From a Collins series Britain in Color; Britain in Pictures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages .
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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 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.
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