Familiar Garden Flowers
by Shirley Hibberd
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$304.20NZ$273.78
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About This Item
London : Cassell and Company, c1880. Leather. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". F. Edward Hulme. A volume of three series of Shirley Hibberd's Familiar Garden Flowers. This volume contains the third, fourth and fifth series of Familiar Garden Flowers by Shirley Hibberd. These volumes celebrate gardening and common garden flowers. James Shirley Hibberd was one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era.The chromolithograph plates are painted by F. Edward Hulme.With forty plates to each series.Collated, complete. In half calf binding. Externally, generally smart with some rubbing to the spine, joints and extremities. Some bumping to the tail of the spine. A mark to the rear board. Front hinge is starting but remains firm. Internally, generally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 853B42
- Title
- Familiar Garden Flowers
- Author
- Shirley Hibberd
- Illustrator
- F. Edward Hulme
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- c1880
- Size
- 7.5" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- Familiar Garden Flowers shirley hibberd flowers gardening shirley hibberd
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
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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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- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.