London: C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd, 1900. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. black cloth, beveled edges gilt lettering, deckled foredge, top edge gilt, 352 pp, ex libris book plate to front paste down, spine slightly cocked, some marks to cloth

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Bookseller: San Francisco Book Company (FR)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 77890
Title: The Life of Edward Fitz-Gerald
Author: Glyde, John; Clodd, Edward (intro)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo
Publisher: C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1900
Bookseller catalogs: Biography;

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Beveled: Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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....
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...