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J.H. MASON 1875-1951 SCHOLAR - PRINTER by [Mason, John Henry]: Owens, L.T.:
Description
London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1976.. Small quarto. Gilt navy cloth boards. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Edges lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine in good dust jacket with a few tape mends on the verso. Mason was associated with the Doves and Cranach presses, among others.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
verso : The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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