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Ferns: British and foreign. The history, organography, classification, and enumeration of the species of the garden ferns with a treatise on their cultivation etc. etc.
by Smith, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
David Bogue. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1879. Second Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback bound in dark green cloth with gilt titles and decoration, stitched binding shaken and pages 163 - 174 detached but present, cloth rubbed and worn at edges, pencil inscription and recent bookplate on half title page. xvi + 450 pages, illustrations in the text, bibliography, index .
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- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68456
- Title
- Ferns: British and foreign. The history, organography, classification, and enumeration of the species of the garden ferns with a treatise on their cultivation etc. etc.
- Author
- Smith, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- David Bogue
- Date Published
- 1879
- Keywords
- Gardening, Horticulture, Botany
- Bookseller catalogs
- gardening;
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
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Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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