English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants ... Volume IV
by SOWERBY, James and Sir Edward SMITH
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: J. Davis, 1795. London, J. Davis, 1795. Large octavo, all edges uncut, containing 71 hand-coloured engravings (numbered 218 to 288), each with a leaf of descriptive text (all versos blank). Contemporary quarter roan and marbled boards worn; title and preface leaves almost excised; apart from a light pressed leaf stain to one plate, the contents are in excellent condition. Sold as a collection of plates.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 112535
- Title
- English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants ... Volume IV
- Author
- SOWERBY, James and Sir Edward SMITH
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1795
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About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...