Description

Up For Sale Today is

Engraved Bookplates
European Ex-Libris 1950-1970

by

Mark Severin and Anthony Reid

Hardcover. 8vo. Private Libraries Association, Pinner, Middlesex, UK. 1972. 176 pages, 500+ bookplates illustrated. One of 2,000 copies designed and edited by David Chamber and printed by W & J Mackay.

DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present.  Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

Reproductions of over 500 bookplates selected from the work of the finest engravers in Europe; extensive introduction and a gazetteer of practising artists; lists of Bookplate Societies; speciment exchange letters; international technical symbols; bibliography.

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Book formats and corresponding sizes  
Name Abbreviations Leaves Pages Approximate cover size (width × height)  
inches cm  
folio 2º or fo 2 4 12 × 19 30.5 × 48  
quarto 4º or 4to 4 8 9½ × 12 24 × 30.5  
octavo 8º or 8vo 8 16 6 × 9 15 × 23  
duodecimo or twelvemo 12º or 12mo 12 24 5 × 7⅜ 12.5 × 19  
sextodecimo or sixteenmo 16º or 16mo 16 32 4 × 6¾ 10 × 17  
octodecimo or eighteenmo 18º or 18mo 18 36 4 × 6½ 10 × 16.5  
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo 32º or 32mo 32 64 3½ × 5½ 9 × 14  
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo 48º or 48mo 48 96 2½ × 4 6.5 × 10  
sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo 64º or 64mo 64 128 2 × 3 5 × 7.5  
 

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