London: Longmans, Green, and Company. Very Good. 1882. Hardcover. Abridged from 'Homes without Hands.' "New edition." With designs by W. F. Keyl, J. B. Zwecker, and E. Smith. Small octavo, bound in olive tone leather, gilt lettering on spine, gilt borders and design, raised bands on spine, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, 411 pages. Book plate on front paste-down, light edge wear to leather binding, else very good. .

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Bookseller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7554
Title: Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals.
Author: WOOD, J. G
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Company
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1882
Keywords: Natural History,
Bookseller catalogs: Natural History;

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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...
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...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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....
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...