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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Grasses of Great Britain.

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Grasses of Great Britain.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Grasses of Great Britain.

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London, England: Robert Hardwicke. Very Good+. 9999. Hardcover. Hardcover, no dustjacket, original forest green cloth with a bright gold botanical illustration at the center of the front cover and bright gold title on spine and blind-embossed botanical decoration near the corners of the front and back covers, no publishing date (circa 1861) 192 pages plus 144 full-page color plates, this is a very clean copy inside and out, the cloth cover looks great, gold title and illustration is still bright, the cloth has a couple of indentations at top of spine but no harm done, when viewing the pages from the top of the binding they are somewhat uneven, we don't know if this is due to gravity over time or, if a repair was made, in any case the binding does appear to be secure, the contents are exquisite with a few minor exceptions: mild foxing on the second blank end-paper, mild tanning to the title page, mild foxing to plates 104 and 142, moderate foxing to plate 142, the aforementioned plates… Read More

London: Robert Hardwicke. Very Good. 1860. Hardcover. No date but? C 1860, xxxii + 192pp, illustrated with 143 coloured plates by John Sowerby, one other present in facsimile, bound in half green leather.green cloth, sl splitting of spine edges and rubbing of cover edges, gilt spine, raised bands; Octavo .

Dark green leather binding with tooled gilt borders to both front and back and board edges. Spine, five raised bands and five tooled gilt panels plus applied title label. Light marks and wear to faces of boards, greater surface wear to edges of spine and random wear to edges of boards. leather worn through top right corner of rear board. Very good marbled end papers with original sellers sticker, Callander and Dixon Whitehaven on rear paste down.Internally complete, very clean with minor foxing to title page plus some very minor latent defects in the paper used.xxxii plus 192 pages plus 143 plates