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A Popular History of the British Ferns and The Allied Plants, comprising the Club-Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails
by Thomas Moore
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/N
- Seller
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Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Lovell Reeve, 1855 A very good copy of the 2nd edition of this important work, updated from the first to add new species and locations. In the original decorative cloth binding with 22 hand coloured plates. It was commissioned for Lovell Reeve's Popular Natural History series, and was extremely popular, contributing to the Victorian craze for fern books in the mid 1800's. The binding is bright and clean with gilt decoration to the front board and spine. There is some pulling to the spine ends and rubbing to edges, corners and spine joints. The top edge of the back board has a couple of small indentations and there is a small paler area on the board. The original endpapers are present. The contents are complete with tissue guarded frontispiece and 21 further plates - placed to support the text rather than being in numerical order. Text and plates are clean with some toning to the top page edge. The tissue guard has some creasing and there is light creasing to the bottom corners of pp 30-34
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- Bookseller
- E C Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033277
- Title
- A Popular History of the British Ferns and The Allied Plants, comprising the Club-Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails
- Author
- Thomas Moore
- Illustrator
- W Fitch, Vincent Brooks
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lovell Reeve
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1855
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Ferns; popular natural history series; victorian fern craze; victorian natural history
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATURAL HISTORY; Ferns;
Terms of Sale
E C Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
E C Books
Biblio member since 2011
Birsay, Orkney
About E C Books
E C Books is a small online bookselling business, specialising in pre 20th century works:natural history, science, history, and travel, aiming for rarer and more unusual books. Our largest stock area is Natural History, where we have a good range of books from the 1700-1800's, many finely illustrated. Other areas include children's books, particularly late 1800's-early 1900's - again illustrated; and literature pre 1900.When you order books from us we ensure that they are properly packed to protect condition, and we always use recorded or 'signed for' postal services for more secure delivery. Please note that we have recently moved to the beautiful Orkney Islands, where we intend to open a bookshop over the next year. Because of our location we cannot guarantee 'next day' delivery but we will get your purchase to you as quickly and safely as we can.Please note that the buyer is responsible for the payment of any tax or duty on import.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- New
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- Gilt
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