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THE FLORA OF BERKSHIRE BEING A TOPOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS FOUND IN THE COUNTY [Interesting Provenance]
by Druce, George Claridge
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp cxcix, 644 [8] , complete with colour folded map of Berkshire held within a pocket at the rear of the book. Blue cloth binding good with some general wear and rubbing to edges and corners, gilt titling to spine, contents clean but for a few newspaper cuttings pasted to the front pastedown and llibrary stamps. The previous owner's name C. E. Salmon Xmas 1897 is inked to the front free pastedown along with a few ticks to the margin of the corrections page. C. E.Salmon was the author of the first edition of Flora of Surrey. There is also a letter included regarding the finding of Herminium Monorchis, Musk Orchid by A. B. Jackson. (Jackson was responsible for the revison to Wayside and Woodland Blossoms..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031734
- Title
- THE FLORA OF BERKSHIRE BEING A TOPOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS FOUND IN THE COUNTY [Interesting Provenance]
- Author
- Druce, George Claridge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Clarendon Press Series
- Bookseller catalogs
- Floras - British;
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Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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