THE FERN WORLD
by Francis George Heath
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
WARRNAMBOOL, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Very Good. 1877. First Edition. Quarter Leather. xi,459pg +25pg adverts at rear; ads on endpapers, 12 colour plates plus other illust; rebound in quarter dark green leather/cloth sides, raised bands, gilt rule and title piece on spine, all edges gilt.; 210x140 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- M & A Simper Bookbinders (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 986
- Title
- THE FERN WORLD
- Author
- Francis George Heath
- Format/Binding
- Quarter Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1877
- Keywords
- Botany, Ferns
- Bookseller catalogs
- Xmas List 2002; Natural History; All;
Terms of Sale
M & A Simper Bookbinders
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About the Seller
M & A Simper Bookbinders
Biblio member since 2004
WARRNAMBOOL, Victoria
About M & A Simper Bookbinders
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...