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Most of our books are used or secondhand. Many of them are also beautiful and collectable, some rare and valuable. Broadly, they cover the fine, applied and performing arts and a selection of them can be found in the catalogues below. Condition
of Books Abbreviations Again, we have tried to keep the jargon to a minimum: Disbound - a book or pamphlet from which the binding has been removed. Endpapers - the blank pages before and after the printed pages. Foxed - spotted or discoloured in patches. Frontis - an illustration facing the title page. Full leather - the whole book bound in leather. Glassine - a transparent paper dustwrapper. Guarded - protected, as in "tissue guarded plates". Half leather - leather spine and corners. Half title - page with just the title on it, before and protecting the tilte page proper. Limp - describes a flexible binding without boards. Paste-down - the half of the endpaper which lines the inside cover. Plates - whole-page illustrations printed separately from the text. Prelims - pages before the main text. Re-backed - a book that has been repaired with a new spine and mended hinges. Re-cased - A book that has been glued back into its covers after having been shaken loose. Rejointed - the book has been repaired preserving the original covers, including the spine. Shaken - a book whose pages are beginning to come loose from the binding. Quarter leather - leather spine only. Unpaginated - no page numbers. Vignette - a small ornamental or decorative design. Yapped edges - not flush with the pages but extending beyond the edges of the book on three sides. | ||||||||||||||||
