Familiar Garden Flowers
by Shirley Hibberd
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
£150.00£135.00
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, c1880. Leather. Good. 7.5" by 5". F. Edward Hulme. Garden flowers by popular gardening writer Shirley Hibberd, with colour plates. A copy of the second series of Familiar Garden Flowers by Shirley Hibberd. A delightful work on garden flowers by widely successful and popular Victorian gardening writer Shirley Hibberd. With forty beautiful colour chromolithograph plates by F. Edward Hulme. Collated, complete. In half morocco leather with marbled boards. Externally, sound with some rubbing and fading and marks to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 839B69
- Title
- Familiar Garden Flowers
- Author
- Shirley Hibberd
- Illustrator
- F. Edward Hulme
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- c1880
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- Familiar Garden Flowers shirley hibberd flowers natural history shirley hibberd
Terms of Sale
Rooke Books
Books are sent on approval and may be returned in like condition for any reason within 14 days of receipt. Responsibility of return to be with the purchaser.
About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....