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The Botanical Cultivator; or, Instructions for the Management and Propagation of the Plants Cultivated in the Hothouses, Greenhouses, and Borders, in the Gardens of Great Britain
by Robert Sweet
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
James Ridgway, 1821. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1821. No Edition Remarks. 528 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown, with tanned mark to front free endpaper. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Rear board and last couple of pages almost detached from text block. Page 505 is detached but still present. Cracking to gutters, causing a few pages throughout to be loose. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Thumb-marking present throughout. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Heavy splits to spine joints, causing spine strip to be loose. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Small white sticker to rear board. Some rubbed brown marks to surfaces, with small white stain to front board.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1641477279TMB
- Title
- The Botanical Cultivator; or, Instructions for the Management and Propagation of the Plants Cultivated in the Hothouses, Greenhouses, and Borders, in the Gardens of Great Britain
- Author
- Robert Sweet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James Ridgway
- Date Published
- 1821
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
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