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OUR WOODLANDS HEATHE, AND HEDGES. A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF TREES, SHRUBS, WILF FRUITS, ETC. WITH NOTICES OF THEIR INSECT INHABITANTS
by W.S.COLEMAN
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE, 1860 Publisher's crimson cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and blind blocked decorative boards, 175 x 115 mm approx. Original yellow made end papers, viii + 200 pp. Colour chromolithographic frontis with tissue guard+ 7 others as called for + numerous unspecified line figs in text. 1860. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Fair (Book- spine sunned with shelf wear to cloth at extremities commensurate with age, no cracks to end papers, discreet original bookseller label to rear paste down. a few sporadic foxing marks to reverse of frontis. glue to back strip failing with consequential straining to signatures , sewing holding. Fore edge of a number of pages ragged from not having been guillotined in course of binding and subsequently carelessly opened. No annotations or other notable defects.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130083
- Title
- OUR WOODLANDS HEATHE, AND HEDGES. A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF TREES, SHRUBS, WILF FRUITS, ETC. WITH NOTICES OF THEIR INSECT INHABITANTS
- Author
- W.S.COLEMAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- Our Woodland Heaths and Hedges, W S Coleman, Natural History, Chromlithographic plates, Victorian Decorative cloth bindings,
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- Shelf Wear
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- Fore Edge
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