Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers and How to Distinguish them. Second Edition.
by PLUES, MARGARET:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Journal of Horticulture Office, London, 1864. 18 attractive hand-coloured plates. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches), 349-pages. Contemporary half green grained calf over marbled boards, spine gilt ruled on and at raised bands and gilt lettered direct, top edge gilt. Attractively and solidly bound, very good. Foxing to front free endpaper else very clean internally.
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- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22012
- Title
- Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers and How to Distinguish them. Second Edition.
- Author
- PLUES, MARGARET:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Journal of Horticulture Office, London, 1864.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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About the Seller
Bristow and Garland
Biblio member since 2005
Shaftesbury, Dorset
About Bristow and Garland
Long established antiquarian & secondhand booksellers and dealers in autographs and manuscripts.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...