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Flowers From Shakespeare's Garden
by Walter Crane
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cassel & Co., Ltd, 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1909. No Edition Stated. 40 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards with green cloth to spine. Colour illustrations throughout by Walter Crane. Ex-libris plate to front pastedown, belonging to Kenn Back. Green patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Pages are clean overall, with mild tanning throughout and occasional speckles of foxing. Uncut pages. Noticeable tears to pages 3-4. Dust marks with faint brown stains to some pages. Illustrations remain bright and clear. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Large splits to spine ends causing spine strip to be loose to bottom edge. Minor loss to ends with fraying to cloth. Scuffing to edges and corners with loss to paper, exposing card underneath. Faint black marks with scuffing overall. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1708436892CRA
- Title
- Flowers From Shakespeare's Garden
- Author
- Walter Crane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassel & Co., Ltd
- Date Published
- 1909
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Uncut Pages
- 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
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