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Popular Greenhouse Botany; containing a familiar and technical description of a selection of exotic plants introduced into the greenhouse
by Agnes Catlow
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/N
- Seller
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Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Lovell Reeve, 1857 A very good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with 20 hand coloured plates. One of the scarcer titles in the Popular Natural History Series. The series was designed for young people to provide a good introduction to different aspects of natural history. Agnes Catlow wrote 2 other titles for the series. The binding has a gilt design and title to the spine and a gilt plant design to the front board. It is in very good clean condition. There is some pulling and scuffing to the spine ends and some scuffing to spine joints. The back board has a small scuffed area at the top edge next to the spine. Corners are lightly turned with rubbling. Internally the original endpapers are present with a blurred sprawly inscription at the fep and small paper loss at the bottom of the front joint. Contents are complete and clean, apart from the lack of a tissue guard to the frontispiece. The hand coloured plates are very bright (plate 1 is the frontispiece and is not at p23 where the plate index lists it). The final 2 text pages are unopened. There is slight spotting to the verso of the fep and the half title and some darkening to top page edges. Page vii of the preface has small loss at the top edge where it has been poorly opened.
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- Bookseller
- E C Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033278
- Title
- Popular Greenhouse Botany; containing a familiar and technical description of a selection of exotic plants introduced into the greenhouse
- Author
- Agnes Catlow
- Illustrator
- O Jewitt, Vincent Brooks
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lovell Reeve
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- victorian natural history; victorian greenhouse botany; victorian women naturalists; popular natural history series,
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATURAL HISTORY; Botany;
Terms of Sale
E C Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
E C Books
Biblio member since 2011
Birsay, Orkney
About E C Books
E C Books is a small online bookselling business, specialising in pre 20th century works:natural history, science, history, and travel, aiming for rarer and more unusual books. Our largest stock area is Natural History, where we have a good range of books from the 1700-1800's, many finely illustrated. Other areas include children's books, particularly late 1800's-early 1900's - again illustrated; and literature pre 1900.When you order books from us we ensure that they are properly packed to protect condition, and we always use recorded or 'signed for' postal services for more secure delivery. Please note that we have recently moved to the beautiful Orkney Islands, where we intend to open a bookshop over the next year. Because of our location we cannot guarantee 'next day' delivery but we will get your purchase to you as quickly and safely as we can.Please note that the buyer is responsible for the payment of any tax or duty on import.
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- Spine
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
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