Abbreviations used in these lists
| advts. | = | advertisements | crm. | = | cream | n.d. | = | no date | ||||||||||||
| Adel. | = | Adelaide | C. | = | Circa | n.p. | no publisher | |||||||||||||
| approx. | = | approximately | ||||||||||||||||||
| a.e.g | all edges gilt
The
top, fore-edge and foot of the book are gilded in gold |
col. | = | coloured | N.Y. | = | New York | |||||||||||||
| blk. | = | black | dec. | = | decorated | obl. | = | oblong | ||||||||||||
| Disbound | Descriptive term for a book or pamphlet or ephemera which has been removed from its binding. | |||||||||||||||||||
| d/w. | = | dustwrapper | ||||||||||||||||||
| bds. | = | boards | ed. | = | Edited by | |||||||||||||||
| brn. | = | brown | ed. | = | edition | = | ||||||||||||||
| b/w. | = | black and white | e/paper | = | end paper | or. | = | original | ||||||||||||
| cl. | = | cloth | f/free | = | front free | orng. | = | orange | ||||||||||||
| cf. | = | calf | frontis. | = | frontispiece | pub. | = | published | ||||||||||||
| 4to. | = | quarto A book between octavo and folio, approximately 11 to 13 inches tall. To make a quarto, a sheet of paper is folded twice, forming four leaves i.e. eight pages.. |
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pp. | = | pages | |||||||||||||
| cr.4to. | = | crown quarto | grn. | = | green | qtr. | = | quarter | ||||||||||||
| 8vo | = | octavo About five inches wide and eight inches tall to about six by nine inches. Octavo is the most common size for current hardcover books. To make octavo books, each sheet of paper is folded to make eight leaves i.e.16 pages. | qtr.lth qtr.clf. |
= = |
quarter leather quarter calf A book with a leather spine. |
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| roy.8vo | = | royal octavo | hf. | = | half | sp. | = | spine | ||||||||||||
| 12mo | = |
duodecimo
A
book roughly seven to eight inches tall |
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| 16mo | = |
sextodecimo
A
small book, approximately four inches wide and six inches tall. To make it, each sheet of paper is folded four times, forming sixteen leaves i.e. 32 pages. |
hf.clf. hf.lth. |
= = |
half
calf half leather A term indicating that the spine and the corners of a book are bound in leather or calf, while the rest of the binding may be cloth or paper. |
recto | = |
a. A
leaf or one side of a leaf, as of a book, letter, newspaper, or
manuscript: tore a
page from the book.
b.
The writing or printing on one side of a leaf.
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| 24mo | = | Book that is up to 5 ¾" tall. | sm. | = | small | |||||||||||||||
| 32mo | = | Up to 5" tall | illus. | = | illustrated | sl. | = | slight | ||||||||||||
| 48mo | = | up to 4" tall | ltg. | = | lettering | Syd. | = | Sydney | ||||||||||||
| 64mo | = | up to 3" tall. | Lond. | = | London | t.e.g. | = | top edge gilt | ||||||||||||
| folio | = | up to 15" tall | lt. | = | light | t/out. | = | throughout | ||||||||||||
| elephant folio | = | up to 23" tall. | Melb. | = | Melbourne | yell. | = | yellow | ||||||||||||
| atlas folio | = | up to 25" tall. | M.U.P. | = | Melbourne University Press | wps. | = | wrappers | ||||||||||||
| double folio | = | up to 50" tall. | n.p. | = | no publisher | vign. | = | vignette |