HUMPHREY REPTON
by STROUD, DOROTHY
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
Country Life Limited, 1962. Facsimile Reprint of Original 18. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book 182 pp., grass green cloth bdg. with gilt-stamped titling on front board & gilt-stamped in cadmium red box on spine, illus. end papers. An important figure in English Garden Architecture, Humphrey Repton was a natural successor to "Capability' Brown, the celebrated gardener of the 18th century; illustrated with 120 b/w reprods & phototype plates on gloss paper plates. (light shelf wear, paper slightly yellowed at edges, VG ++++)DJ(scuffed edges with small chips at edges spine & corners, a few small closed teras along edges, slightly yellowed edges) Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Odyssey Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144H
- Title
- HUMPHREY REPTON
- Author
- STROUD, DOROTHY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile Reprint of Original 18
- Publisher
- Country Life Limited
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY. ARCHITECTURE. GARDENING. HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- ARCHITECTURE;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Odyssey Books
Biblio member since 2005
Pointe Claire, Quebec
About Odyssey Books
We have been an established bookstore since 1986 but are operating from home now as we have closed the store for retirement.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
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