Gardens Old & New: The Country House and Its Garden Environment
by Country Life LIbrary
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Newnes, Ltd.. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. 298 pages, indexed. Hardcover in green cloth with black illustration on front cover. Binding is damped, has gouging at the fore-edge of the front board. Rear board is scuffed, has wrinkling. There is a 2.5 long tear on the left side of the headcap. A 1 inch long by 1 inch wide flap of cloth part way down the spine. A 2 inch long rip on spine near foot, right side. Boards are damped and slightly warped. All edges of text block are gilt but the text block is shaken, so the gilt is scuffed and dulled. Text is toned. Some pages have smudges. Photographs throughout.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049887
- Title
- Gardens Old & New: The Country House and Its Garden Environment
- Author
- Country Life LIbrary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Newnes, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 7.10 lbs
- Keywords
- Gardens; Homes; English Manor; Botany; Horticulture;
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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.
Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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....
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