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FEATHERED FAVOURITES Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds from Drawings By Joseph Wolf
by Wolf, Joseph (Illustrator)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Thomas Bosworth, 1854. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Pp. 54 , 12 colour plateswith tissue guards and decorative mounts. Original cloth binding, spine poor and text block separate from the binding, ornate gilt detail to front board. Contents complete, the original end-papers, name and date 1857 to the front pastedown,all edges gilt, the gutta percha has deteriorated to leave the pages loose, the plates with tissue guards are clean and bright. A fair copy in need of a repair to the binding..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035433
- Title
- FEATHERED FAVOURITES Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds from Drawings By Joseph Wolf
- Author
- Wolf, Joseph (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Bosworth
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1854
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Birds - Illustrated;
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Loe Books
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About the Seller
Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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