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The English Garden
by Ralph Dutton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$42.04NZ$31.52
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About This Item
The English Garden by Ralph Dutton Hardback, 1945, second edition, illustrated, published by B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, viii + 122 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 8 5/8" by 5 5/8" by 3/4". Pictorial dust jacket displays some slight marking and wear but is in quite good condition and has a protective plastic cover. Green cloth binding, black lettering to spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding but very clean and colouring vivid. Signs of wear, a little rubbing at edges. A little slackness to binding but book contents quite firm. Page edges a little marked and slightly scuffed. Previous owner names inscribed to recto and verso of front free endpaper. Some marking to page surfaces but quite clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-409
- Title
- The English Garden
- Author
- Ralph Dutton
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Pages
- viii + 122
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Gardens, England, History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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