The New Botanic Garden, Illustrated with One Hundred and Thirty-three Plants, Engraved by SANSOM, from the Original Pictures, and Coloured with the Greatest Exactness from Drawings by SYDENHAM EDWARDS
by EDWARDS, Sydenham
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About This Item
John Stockdale, 1812. First. Volume II only of 2, 4to brown leather with gilt spine rebacked, scuffing and corners bumped. Plates 30 to 60 only. 235-503pp.<br/> <br/> Beautiful engraved plates with lavish original hand coloring. Hard to find. Sydenham Teast Edwards was a natural history illustrator. This is a good example of his work.<br/> <br/>
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- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 297591
- Title
- The New Botanic Garden, Illustrated with One Hundred and Thirty-three Plants, Engraved by SANSOM, from the Original Pictures, and Coloured with the Greatest Exactness from Drawings by SYDENHAM EDWARDS
- Author
- EDWARDS, Sydenham
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- John Stockdale
- Date Published
- 1812
- Keywords
- poppy, flower books
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- 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....
- 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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...