THE PARKS, PROMENADES & GARDENS OF PARIS DESCRIBED AND CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO THE WANTS OF OUR OWN CITIES AND OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GARDENS
by Robinson, W. [William]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1869. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp xvi, 644, [14] frontispiece plate, title page, fold-up plates and upwards of four hundred illustrations. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering, gilt motif and decoration to front board and spine, very good with just a little rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight, original endpapers, first and last few pages lightly foxed, no inscriptions, otherwise pages clean and crisp. A very good, first edition..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031126
- Title
- THE PARKS, PROMENADES & GARDENS OF PARIS DESCRIBED AND CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO THE WANTS OF OUR OWN CITIES AND OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GARDENS
- Author
- Robinson, W. [William]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1869
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening - General;
Terms of Sale
Loe Books
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About the Seller
Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...