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FLORA CONSPICUA; The Most Ornamental Flowering, Hardy, Exotic and Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants for Embellishing...
by Morris, Richard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for Thomas Griffiths, 1830. Book. Illus. by William Clark. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo (15 x 24cm). Pp. iv, unpaginated. 60 highly attractive hand-coloured plates, some heightened with gum arabic, the plates numbered 1 - 60. Full leather binding which has been rebacked retaining the original decorative boards, spine with gilt decoration and title label. Bindings good and strong. Contents clean and tight, original yellow coated endpapers, fine armorial bookplate and inscription belonging to Lord Templetown, light spotting to first and last few pages, plates are unmarked with just a few with the odd spot; plates extremely bright and fresh; plate 40 and 52 have had a professional repair to the top edges using Japanese tissue. A very good copy with fine plates..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035041
- Title
- FLORA CONSPICUA; The Most Ornamental Flowering, Hardy, Exotic and Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants for Embellishing...
- Author
- Morris, Richard
- Illustrator
- William Clark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed for Thomas Griffiths
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1830
- Size
- 8vo (15 x 24cm)
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Terms of Sale
Loe Books
We are pleased to offer a full refund on any item, if it is returned within 14. If it is not as described, we will also be happy to reimburse shipping costs, otherwise we will only refund the cost of the item. The above only applies if we receive the item back in the same condition that it was sent. We are happy to send books under 1kg free in the UK
About the Seller
Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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We specialise in fine and rare books, particularly the New Naturalist series, natural history and horticultural titles.Thank you for viewing our stock
We specialise in fine and rare books, particularly the New Naturalist series, natural history and horticultural titles.Thank you for viewing our stock
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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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
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