A New Orchard & Garden: or, The Best Way for Planting, Graffing, and to Make any Ground Good for a Rich Orchard . As Also the Husbandry of Bees, with Their Several Uses and Annoyances
by Lawson, William
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
London: Cresset Press, 1927. Original quarter vellum over tan boards, gilt title, top edge gilt, uncut, (8.75 x 7 inches). xxvi, 116 pages; Illustrated with a vignette title page, and in-text woodcuts throughout. An illustrated limited edition (650 copies printed) of William Lawson's important 1618 work on gardening, illustrated with woodcuts. An accurate facsimile, including the notes on beekeeping, planting, graffing, and how to make an orchard. A clean, tight copy in the scarce jacket, chipped with paper loss.. Limited. Vellum. Very Good/Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005064
- Title
- A New Orchard & Garden: or, The Best Way for Planting, Graffing, and to Make any Ground Good for a Rich Orchard . As Also the Husbandry of Bees, with Their Several Uses and Annoyances
- Author
- Lawson, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Cresset Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Gardening
- Size
- Octavo
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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