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The Fern Garden; How to Make, Keep, and Enjoy it; or Fern Culture Made Easy
by Hibberd, Shirley
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Groombridge, 1879. 8th edition, 12mo, 148pp, 8 chromolithographic colour plates; forty odd wood engravings; green cloth-covered boards lettered and decorated gilt and black, all edges gilt, front inner hinge a little tender o/w well-preserved example; previous owner's bookplate to fr pastedown o/w VG Copy. 8th Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Lucas Booksellers
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45805
- Title
- The Fern Garden; How to Make, Keep, and Enjoy it; or Fern Culture Made Easy
- Author
- Hibberd, Shirley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 8th Edition
- Publisher
- Groombridge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1879
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books, Country Matters, Natural History, Gardens, Gardening
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Gardens & Gardening; Natural History & Botany;
Terms of Sale
Roger Lucas Booksellers
It has always been our policy over 25 years to offer decent books in good shape at sane prices. In the unlikely eventuality that something is not as described return within 7 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Roger Lucas Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Horncastle, Lincolnshire
About Roger Lucas Booksellers
We are a family-based firm of general, out-of-print booksellers with strongish suits in Literature and Literary Criticism, Art & Art History, and New Age Subjects. Horncastle is a small market town at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds about 20 miles East of Lincoln.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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