A Celebration of Flowers
by Ray Desmond
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collingridge Books, Hamlyn, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 10.5" by 7.5". Not Stated . A lovely work by Ray Desmond celebrating exotic garden and greenhouse plants introduced to the British Isles with stunning colourful and black and white illustrations. The first edition of this work. Celebrating two-hundred years of publication of Curtis' Botanical Magazine , featuring a selection of original watercolours and hand-coloured engravings with a number of historical line drawings and photographs. A gallery of plant portraits with notes celebrating the history of the Botanical Magazine. Complete with clipped dust wrapper. Written by Ray Desmond. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper price clipped and excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. With numerous illustrations both in colour and in black and white. Fine
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 818A14
- Title
- A Celebration of Flowers
- Author
- Ray Desmond
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collingridge Books, Hamlyn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 10.5" by 7.5"
- Keywords
- flowers gardening first editions gardening
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Shelf Wear
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