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Belt Ornaments through the Ages
Wellington Wang Collection
Hardcover. 4to. Harvest International. 1996. 335 pgs. 500 color examples. Signed and inscribed by Wellington Wang on the FFEP. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
The belt hook is a device for fastening that predates the belt buckle.
The earliest archaeological evidence of belt hooks date to the 7th century BC, in East Asia. Belt hooks were made with bronze, iron, gold, and jade. Texts from Warring States period China claim that the belt hook originates from Central Asian nomads, although belt hooks have been found in China predating the Warring States. The equestrian tradition, initially foreign to China, was tightly related to wearing belted pants, thus belt hooks became one of the features of "barbaric" exoticism. As such, the hooks became an object of aesthetic contemplation. For example, Qu Yuan (ca.340-278 BCE) compares beautiful women to the belt hooks xianbei.
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| Book formats and corresponding sizes |
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| Name |
Abbreviations |
Leaves |
Pages |
Approximate cover size (width × height) |
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| inches |
cm |
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| folio |
2º or fo |
2 |
4 |
12 × 19 |
30.5 × 48 |
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| quarto |
4º or 4to |
4 |
8 |
9½ × 12 |
24 × 30.5 |
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| octavo |
8º or 8vo |
8 |
16 |
6 × 9 |
15 × 23 |
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| duodecimo or twelvemo |
12º or 12mo |
12 |
24 |
5 × 7⅜ |
12.5 × 19 |
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| sextodecimo or sixteenmo |
16º or 16mo |
16 |
32 |
4 × 6¾ |
10 × 17 |
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| octodecimo or eighteenmo |
18º or 18mo |
18 |
36 |
4 × 6½ |
10 × 16.5 |
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| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo |
32º or 32mo |
32 |
64 |
3½ × 5½ |
9 × 14 |
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| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo |
48º or 48mo |
48 |
96 |
2½ × 4 |
6.5 × 10 |
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| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo |
64º or 64mo |
64 |
128 |
2 × 3 |
5 × 7.5 |
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