Butterflies and Moths (British)
by FURNEAUX, W
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1907. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bound in full brown leather with gilt to boards, board edges & ribbed spine. Leather to boards seems to be decorated with marbling pattern. School emblem in gilt to front board; prize plate to front pastedown. Marbled page edges & endpages. Illustrated throughout in black & white, & with 12 full colour plates. Usual wear to outer edges. Wear to outer front hinge. Light staining to boards. Front hinge cracked; binding remains tight. Pages show some age darkening; outer edges of endpages darkened.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16845
- Title
- Butterflies and Moths (British)
- Author
- FURNEAUX, W
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Nature, Butterflies
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
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