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Hesperides Press, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. reprinted edition. hardback, large 8vo, reprinted from the 1567 edition, green cloth lettered gilt to a faded spine, no dust wrapper, top edge gilt, tightly bound, some mild spotting to pre-lims but o/w very good, text unmarked, Limited edition of 550 copies of which this is an un-numbered example, 186pp.
A Greene Forest or a naturall Historie by John Maplet (Complied by); W. H. Davies (Introduction) - 1930
by John Maplet (Complied by); W. H. Davies (Introduction)
A Greene Forest or a naturall Historie
by John Maplet (Complied by); W. H. Davies (Introduction)
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Book is in Very Good condition, with rubbing to corners, sun bleaching to spine and some onto cover boards. Prior bookseller notes written neatly on front endpaper in pencil. Pages otherwise clean and secure.
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- Publisher The Hesperides Press
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1930
- Keywords 1930, vintage, history, natural history, nature, plants, metals, soil, animals
A Greene Forest or a Naturall Historie, wherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals : next of Plants, as of Herbes, Trees, and Shrubs, Lastly of Brute Beastes, Foules, Fishes, creeping worms and Serpents
by Maplet, John (introduced by W H Davies)
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A Greene Forest or a naturall Historie, Wherein may bee seene first the most susseraine Vertues in all the whole kinde of Stones & Mettals: next of Plants, as of Herbes, Trees, and Shrubs, Lastly of Brute Beastes, Foules, Fishes, creeping worms, and Serpents, and that Alphabetically: so that a Table shall not neede.
by DAVIES, W.H. (introduces). MAPLET, John (compiles)
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The Hesperides Press, London., 1930. First edition thus: reprinted from the edition of 1567. Quarto. pp xii, 186. Five-page Introduction by W.H. Davies. Number 47 of 50 copies on Millbourne pure rag hand-made paper signed by Davies at the end of the Introduction and specially bound in full green vellum, out of a total edition of 575 copies. As often happens with coloured vellum the covers are differentially toned. A little surface abrasion to covers. Very good in very good, slightly rubbed and partially faded slipcase.
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A Greene Forest
by Maplet, John, compiler; introduction by W. H. Davies
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London: Hesperides Press, 1930. Hardcover. Near fine condition in a very good slipcase. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Davies, from a total edition of 575 copies. Bound in full green vellum and printed on Millbourne pure rag hand-made paper. Reprinted from the 1567 London edition of Henry Denham. Uncut. Spine sunned, slipcase sunned and chipped at extremities.
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