On Gardens
by Bacon, Francis and Abraham Cowley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Robt. Riviere & Son. Fair with no dust jacket. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Quite heavy foxing throughout. 2" x 1/4" missing to leather along lower corner. 1/8" tear to leather at head of spine. ; Two essays by Francis Bacon and Abraham Cowley. 45 pages. Blind-stamped leather boards with gilt lettering. Top page edges gilt. Page dimensions: 112mm x 90mm. ; 32mo 4" - 5" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7774
- Title
- On Gardens
- Author
- Bacon, Francis and Abraham Cowley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Robt. Riviere & Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...