Garden Ornament.
by Gertrude Jekyll & Christopher Hussey:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Country Life, 1927. Second edition (revised, hardback). Folio (40cm by 28cm), x, 438pp. b&w illustrations throughout. Original two-tone green cloth binding, gilt titling to the spine. Binding rather rubbed, corners of boards a little scuffed, endpapers lightly foxed, short ownership inscription. Overall, this copy is in good plus condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30858
- Title
- Garden Ornament.
- Author
- Gertrude Jekyll & Christopher Hussey:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Country Life, 1927.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....