London: Adam & Charles Black / A & C Black, 1909. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Ella Du Cane. Small quarto. 150, (6) pages. Hardcover bound in white decorative cloth with cover designs embossed in gilt and in blind. The binding shows some rubbing and wear, and the spine is tanned. Cloth is foxed. Damping on endpapers and flyeaves as well as bottom of some pages. Endpapers tanned. Prior owner's name on front flyleaf. Front gutter is cracked. Collates complete with all of the beautiful color plates.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 044759
Title: The Flowers and Gardens of Madeira
Author: Du Cane, Florence
Illustrator: Ella Du Cane
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition First Printing
Publisher: Adam & Charles Black / A & C Black
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1909
Weight: 2.90 lbs
Keywords: 1909; Florence Du Cane; Ella Du Cane; Ducane; Madeira; Travel; History; Flowers; Gardens; Color Plates.
Bookseller catalogs: Botany & Horticulture; Travel; Asia;
Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall

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Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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...
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....
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...