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British Cage Birds
by Wallace, R.L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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IVER, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: L. Upcott Gill, n.d. [1886]. viii, 504 + [16]-ads, 32 plates (15 col), wood engravings to text. . HB. 8vo, orig. blue cloth, stamped in black and gilt, bevelled edges, a little rubbed, some wear to head/foor of spine; aeg, patterned endpapers. Some scattered foxing/spotting, recto of frontispiece browned. Vg.. Scarce. Illustrated with plates by A.F. Lydon, 15 fine colour-printed and finished by hand. Undated issue; Mullens & Swann give 1886, but McLean gives 1887, while the publisher's catalogue at the rear is dated 11/91.Mullens & Swann p. 609. McLean 126..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S56891
- Title
- British Cage Birds
- Author
- Wallace, R.L
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- L. Upcott Gill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d. [1886]
- Keywords
- Britain; Cage Birds; Coloured plates
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Pemberley Books
Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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