AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF GARDENING; Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening, ... [cont.]
by Loudon, J. C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. Hardcover; 8vo; 1230 pages. Profusely illustrated with engravings in text. Half bound in green leather, with marbled sidepapers. Gilt lettering on a chipped morocco label on spine. Five raised and gilt bands. Quite worn edges and spine, scuffed and rubbed. Boards exposed at paper's edges. Shelfwear, with the sidepapers fairly well rubbed. Marbled endpapers, missing bfep. Marbled edges, now faded. Foxing to verso of endpapers. Pages very lighly wavy, but quite bright and clean considering the age. G-/--. Hardcover. Good-/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 223933
- Title
- AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF GARDENING; Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening, ... [cont.]
- Author
- Loudon, J. C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1826
- Keywords
- Gardening, Plants,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agriculture;
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J. Wyatt Books
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- Morocco
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- Jacket
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