Animate Creation Popular Edition of Our Living World, A Natural History
by J.G. Wood
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- An excellent set
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Selmar Hess, 1885. An excellent set. Binding: contemporary ½ morocco with cloth boards. Spine with 5 compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two and four. All edges speckled, marbled paste down and free end papers. Ex-libris on paste down endpaper., Size: large 4to, Illustration: 30 mounted chromolithographed plates of different animals, numerous full page and intext woodcut illustrations., Volume: 3, Pages: Volume 1. P. title, printer’s imprint, iii-xii, 1-640, index (4); Volume 2. P. title, printer’s imprint, iii-x, 1-632, index (6); Volume 3. P. title, printer’s imprint, iii-x, 1-598, index (6)., Category: ; Book Plate Books Colour; Book Natural History
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- Bookseller
- Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B2218
- Title
- Animate Creation Popular Edition of Our Living World, A Natural History
- Author
- J.G. Wood
- Book Condition
- Used - An excellent set
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Selmar Hess
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- ; Book Plate Books Colour; Book Natural History
Terms of Sale
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....