THE GARDEN, THE WOODS, AND THE FIELDS, OR, THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE AS SEASONS CHANGE
by Natural History
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: T. Nelson and Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in tan full calf Prize Binding, five raised panels with gilt decoration within, edges a little rubbed, gold crest on front board, front board a little stained at its right side, marbled page edges, frontis engraving intact. Scarce. ; 7.5" x 5" .
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- Bookseller
- Luis Porretta Fine Arts (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17750
- Title
- THE GARDEN, THE WOODS, AND THE FIELDS, OR, THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE AS SEASONS CHANGE
- Author
- Natural History
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Nelson and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...