british museum guide first second (4 Ergebnisse)

Ex-library, octavo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind public library stamp to front board, page edges stained grey & red, viii + 156pp, illus, VG (light creasing & moderate fraying to spine extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate soiling to boards & edges, usual library markings, moderate cracking to gutters with some tape repairs).

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO40250117: 1904. In-8. Relié cuir dos-coins. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos à nerfs, Intérieur acceptable. 156 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photo-gravures en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Reliure parcheminée. Titre, caissons, roulettes et filets dorés sur le dos. Filets dorés sur les plats. Tranche de tête dorée. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque. Annotations en page de garde. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. 7 x 5 inches. First Series, xxxii + 176 pp.; Second Series, xxxvi + 188 pp.; Third Series, xxxii + 191 + [1] pp. Bound in maroon cloth, front board with blind stamped border enclosing gilt blocks of plants, in pictorial (with copies of frontispiece fixed) dust wrappers, which have some sunning and darkening and chips at head and tail of spine. Colour speckled edges. All volumes very good with clean interiors. Illustrated by 310 colour plates, including 3 frontispieces, by 87 black and white photographic plates, and by figures in colour key and in text. Pictorial endpapers. Decorated by publisher's devices on title pages. Blossoms was the first published title in the well known Wayside and Woodland series of Frederick Warne. The First and Second Series appeared in 1895 and 96, with the Third Series following in 1929. This set is of the new edition of 1941, with two of the three volumes, being reprints of it. Edward Step (1855-1931) was a natural history writer, who contributed several other titles to the Wayside and Woodland series. BOTANY WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND NATURAL HISTORY PLANTS 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BOTANY.