The Poetical Language of Flowers; or The Pilgrimage of Love
by MILLER, THOMAS
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Charles Griffin and Company N/D (Twelfth Thousand). 12TH THOUSAND, duodecimo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine, gilt lettering & tooling with black decoration to front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xv + 192pp + 16pp catalogue to rear, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine extrems, moderate scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, ex-libris plate & prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, heavy cracking to some gutters, sl staining & foxing to some pages, pressed flowers between some pages)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 296117
- Title
- The Poetical Language of Flowers; or The Pilgrimage of Love
- Author
- MILLER, THOMAS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Griffin and Company N/D (Twelfth Thousand)
- Keywords
- flowers plants botany culture love romance meaning
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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....
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...