GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED
IN OUR CATALOGUES
(This list is not exhaustive but gives many of the abbreviations used in
our catalogues)
| SIZE | |
| 8vo | Octavo |
| 4to. | Quarto |
| Folio | Folio-sized |
| Oblong | Width greater than height |
| . | |
| PLACE | |
| Lond. . | London |
| N.Y. | New York |
| Syd. | Sydney |
| Melb. | Melbourne |
| (Most other place abbreviations are self-explanatory) | |
| PUBLISHER | |
| A &R | Angus & Robertson |
| MUP | Melbourne University Press |
| OUP | Oxford University Press |
| T & H | Thames & Hudson |
| BINDING | |
| Or.Cl. | Original cloth binding |
| Or.bds. | Original paper-covered boards |
| Or.ill.bds.. | Original illustrated paper-covered boards |
| Col.ill.bds. | Paper-covered boards with a colour illustration |
| Wrapps. | Limp wrappers |
| Ill.wrapps. | Illustrated limp wrappers |
| Dec.wrapps. | Decorated limp wrappers |
| Hf.leather | Half leather (leather on the spine & corners) |
| Qt.leather | Quarter leather (leather on the spine) |
| d.w. | Dustwrapper (dustjacket) |
| GENERAL | |
| n.d. | No date |
| unpag. | Unpaginated (no page numbering) |
| b/w ills. | Black & white illustrations |
| b/w plates | Black & white plates |
| col.ills. | Colour illustrations |
| col.plates | Colour plates |
| 1st ed. | First edition |
| imp. | Impression (later printing than the first) |
| ed. | Edition (later edition than the first) |
| rep. | Reprint |
| sl.foxing | Slight foxing |