Home and Garden
by Gertrude Jekyll
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. pp XV, 301. 1st printing. Beautifully half bound in natural Morocco with cloth boards, spine gilt titles and decoration in Art Deco typeface and style. Prior owner bookplate to FEP.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Strawberry Hill Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039501
- Title
- Home and Garden
- Author
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Strawberry Hill Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Strawberry Hill Books
Biblio member since 2010
Rotherfield, East Sussex
About Strawberry Hill Books
Strawberry Hill Books is a UK based collectable and antiquarian book dealer with an inventory of 10K titles. Specialist areas include Fiction, Topography, History, Art and Exploration. We supply worldwide and all shipments are tracked.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Half Bound
- ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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