NATURE AND WOODCRAFT.
by WATSON, JOHN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Moderate Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Walter Smaith and Innes., 1890. Front cover vignette of a falcon with a sparrow hawk in its talons. Spine lettered in gilt. Spine is rubbed and extremities are frayed. Black endpapers. Full-page illustrations by G.E. Lodge. Chapters on birds of prey, mountain foxes, autumn berries, the gamekeeper, British wild pigeons, and much more. 301pp.. First Edition.. Lime Green Cloth. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011209
- Title
- NATURE AND WOODCRAFT.
- Author
- WATSON, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Moderate Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Walter Smaith and Innes.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Nature
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....