ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LINNAEAN GENERA OF INSECTS (two volumes bound in one)
by Wood, W
- 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: W. Wood, 1821. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound in one; pp. vol. I: xvi, 118; vol. II; [2], 161, [3]; with 86 hand-coloured plates (complete). Fine binding of full tan calf with five raised bands to the gilt-decorated spine,red and black title labels, gilt dentelles to the inner boards, very good with light wear only. Contents clean and tight, marbled end papers, armorial bookplate of John Barrow to the front paste-down of vol. I; plates very good, several with the plate number partially cropped (but text block not trimmed when rebound, so originally were so). A very good copy in a handsome binding..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037189
- Title
- ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LINNAEAN GENERA OF INSECTS (two volumes bound in one)
- Author
- Wood, W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W. Wood
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1821
- Size
- 12mo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Featured Books; Entomology;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...