The Family Garland: A Book for Families and Social Libraries, Highly Embellished with Steel and Flower Plates
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair condition
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
This book contains a collection of articles, poetry, and music for family entertainment. It is illustrated with twelve steel plate engravings and also with ten hand-colored portraits of flowers. The book has some foxing and water staining inside, but the color plates are clean and crisp. A new cloth spine has been added , and the covers show some wear. The color plates of flowers are quite beautiful.
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Desert Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 467
- Title
- The Family Garland
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Bound in dark cloth with a gold flower on the cover.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stone & Halpine, publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1840's
- Size
- 6in x 9in
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- garland family
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Rare Books; Gardening and Horticulture;
Terms of Sale
High Desert Books
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About the Seller
High Desert Books
Biblio member since 2020
Silver City, New Mexico
About High Desert Books
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Glossary
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...