London, UK: Martin Hopkinson. Green cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine. 250pp.,24 b&w plates and 1 drawing. Previous owner's book plate to front paste down. Spine and covers edge worn, covers stained. Plate margins toned, foxing to margins throughout and to outer edges of text block, two hinges cracked o/w good condition. . Good. Hardcover. 1924.

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Bookseller: Broad Street Book Centre (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 113864
Title: A Handbook of Garden Irisis
Author: Dykes, W. R
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Martin Hopkinson
Place of Publication: London, UK
Date Published: 1924
Pages: 250
Size: 220mm x 140mm.
Keywords: botany gardening horticulture Irises Unit Three

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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...
O/W: An abbreviation for otherwise
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....
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....
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,...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...