Tiny Toddlers by Cone, Helen Gray
- Bookseller: Read'Em Again Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 005427
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good -
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: Humphrey, Maud
- Publisher: Dean and Son
- Place: London
- Date published: 0000
Description
London: Dean and Son, 0000. 1890. Six wonderful Maud Humphrey chromolithographs alternate with pages of verse with line drawings. Sound binding with neatly mended rear hinge. Bottom edge of last plate has two 1/2" closed tears. Front free endpaper has clipped upper right corner, child's doodling, and 1894 gift inscription. Soiled cover with edgewear and doodling. Still a very nice copy of a rare item. . Pictorial Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. Illus. by Humphrey, Maud. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
front free endpaper : The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book. It may be plain or decorative.
soiled : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
folio : a large book size, generally 15" in height or larger.
Closed tears : Tears in which no material has been lost.
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