A Posy of Wildflowers.
by WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. BONHAM-CARTER, Victor
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Allan Wingate, 1946. A collection of verses about various English wildflowers, illustrated with wood engravings, some colour, by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Printed at the Baynard Press. Pp. 124. 16mo., original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, slightly faded and rubbed along edges, in the mildly foxed and chipped illustrated dust jacket. |||
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8891
- Title
- A Posy of Wildflowers.
- Author
- WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. BONHAM-CARTER, Victor
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Allan Wingate
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Hellmuth Weissenborn;Wood Engravings;Victor Bonham-Carter;Flowers;Poetry Book,Illustrated, Printing & Typography
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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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