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The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Hooker, Joseph Dalton
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London: : Macmillan and Co., , 1870. . 8vo, . full green calf prize binding with Cranbrook Grammar School insignia to upper cover rubbing to extremities and joints, corners slightly bumped, chip to spine label, prize label to front pastedown, spotting to endpapers, else very good. A good handbook of plants and flowers with their Latin names, descriptions, etc. by celebrated English botanist and friend of Charles Darwin.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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. Also known as the back.
calf : Leather binding made from calfskin. Most common form of leather binding.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
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