Nothing to do with taxes. Unbound books are thinner and lighter. You could fit perhaps half again as many unbound sheets in a given size crate as...
I'm not even sure this is a book - there appears to be very little space for pages between the thick covers. La Vita Nuova is the most likely text...
Hm, unusual. Tauchnitz were German popular publishers and important copyright reformers - among other things, they published editions authorized...
I've got a 1739 Basel printing of the thing - scarcer in the States, but no more desirable, alas. And no hair or flowers, thank goodness! The...
Lupton was a reprinter of public domain material, not terribly high quality. Avon has a literary odor, probably because of Shakepeare's Avon...
Looks like you have the same book as the eBay link in a different, fancier binding - yours is silk, rather than ordinary book cloth. More...
Yes, I believe you are correct. The second line must be " Gilt Back Double Bands", I think, which would be the raised hubs on the spine which have...
So an ARC, Advance Reading Copy or Advance Review Copy, as the BTYW article says, predates the publication of the book, and is thus earlier than...
Type case, typically used for fleurons, dingbats or other ornamental bits; as opposed to the common California job case, used for letters, which...
That's a REALLY nifty website which I had not seen before....
Norwegian. Den Sande Kristendom = True Christanity. Old Lutheran material like this is endemic in Minnesota & Wisconsin; I have yet to encounter...
Looks to me like the kind of retro imagery that was around in the 1990s, inspired by Keith Haring (NYC subway cartoons) and Matt Groening...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here is a Taiwanese edition of Catch-22 I had a while ago. It's an inch or two smaller than...
I think these are Taiwanese pirate editions from the 1960s - early '70s. There were a lot of these printed during the Vietnam war which came home...
When I evaluate signatures, I usually look for differences, not similarities. In this case, the slant is wrong, the flow of the 'nim' is wrong,...
If it, including the block it's mounted on, was precisely .918 inches thick, it's what old-school printers call "type-high", meaning it could have...
Not Cooper's signature, just someone noting that he's the author - I assume his name is not on the title page? Incidentally, the first edition was...
Leaving it on a shelf is safe enough, provided it has some support on the sides and does not sag or slump. Laying it on its side is safest, if you...
So the first question we must ask in considering a signature is "who cares?" Is Franklin B. Mead anyone anybody cares about? No Wikipedia entry, a...
Some sort of rutile (a thin, runny, pretty glaze) blue stripes over an iron oxide brown, maybe - lots of ways to get brown, but that rutile look...
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