BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
by Johnson, C. Pierpoint
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Gurney and Jackson. Very Good+. 1894. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Sowerby with an introduction and a key to the Natural Orders, by C. Peirpoint Johnson. Re-issue: To which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and the ferns, Horsetails, and Club-Mosses by E. Sowerby. Clean green publishers cloth decorated with gilt borders and titles All edges gilt. (xxiv) 180pp. Mainly illustrated with hand color plates with a few b/w engravings. Pictorial frontispiece. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Dark green endpaper. Botany, British Wild Flowers. Plants; Color Plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 186 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17057
- Title
- BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
- Author
- Johnson, C. Pierpoint
- Illustrator
- John A. Sowerby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Publisher
- Gurney and Jackson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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