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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur
de Gertrude Jekyll
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". Gertrude Jekyll. A charming illustrated copy of Gertrude Jekyll's popular work on gardening. The third edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt detail. With a frontispiece and seventy monochrome photographic plates. Collated complete. A guide to gardening and flowers, divided by each month of the year, by Gertrude Jekyll. Jekyll was a popular British horticulturist, garden designer, writer and artist. She has been described as 'a premier influence in garden design' by British and American gardening experts. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with some shelf wear to the edges. Fading to the spine and edges of the front board. Age-toning to the paste-downs and free endpapers. Internally, binding slightly strained to the half title page but otherwise firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the occasional mark and some age-toning to the edges. Very Good
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- Librería
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 834G16
- Título
- Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur
- Autor
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Ilustrador
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1899
- Tamaño
- 9" by 5.5"
- Palabras clave
- Gardening landscape design plants flower arranging landscape design
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- 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...
