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Gardens of Delight
by Miles and John Hadfield
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
192 pages with color frontispiece, plates (some in color) and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The pleasures of gardens and gardening are manifold and extend beyond the boundary walls and hedges to works of art that gardens have inspired - to literature, pictures, pottery and porcelain, textile design, and much else. The authors' purpose in this volume hs been together up some of these delights as originally described or displayed, to sift and sort them into an ordered array, and link them together with a commentary in which they obtrude as little as possible between source and reader. Condition: Underlining throughout with marginalia, soiled, previous owner's gift inscription to front end paper. Jacket edge chipped with tears, spine ends chipped, fold over flaps creased, some tape reinforced to back of wrapper else a good copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M0137
- Title
- Gardens of Delight
- Author
- Miles and John Hadfield
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Compan
- Place of Publication
- Boston and Toronto
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Gardens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miscelaneous;
- Size
- Quarto
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About the Seller
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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