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Home and Garden.
por JEKYLL, Gertrude
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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Sobre este item
London: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1900. In a fine Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding First edition, first impression, and a particularly attractive copy, presented in a Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding, with the stamp to rear pastedown of a binder using a hammer. Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, and craftswoman. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, and her prolific and enduring advice on gardening, published across magazines, books, and journals, remains an influential reference for gardeners to this day. Octavo. Finely bound in mid-20th century dark green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine lettered in gilt with floral tooling in compartments separated by raised bands, multiple gilt fillets to boards with floral cornerpieces, leaf decoration to turn-ins, green silk endpapers, gilt edges. With 53 illustrations from photographs by the author. Small plain card with gift inscription pasted to binder's front blank, tiny dent to lower spine panel, an excellent copy.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 162859
- Título
- Home and Garden.
- Autor
- JEKYLL, Gertrude
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Local de publicação
- London: Longmans, Green and Co.,
- Data de publicação
- 1900
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Peter Harrington
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Sobre o Vendedor
Peter Harrington
Membro de Biblio desde 2006
London
Sobre Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
