Titles starting with M from Steve Tilston

boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.

reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.

boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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.

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.

reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.

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.

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.

reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.

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.

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.

reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.

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.

reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.

boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.