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Ros Rosarum Ex Horto Poetarum - Dew of the Ever-Living Rose Gathered from the Poets' Gardens of Many Lands [signed copy]
by E.V.B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Elliot Stock. Fair. 1885. Hardback. Poor condition, Illustrated, translucent, brown onion-skin d/jkt and backstrip missing. Plain off-white thick card wrappers, worn; spine worn, stitched binding exposed - binding intact, but needs careful handling. Prose and poetry anthology.onion skin jacket missing, Beautifully Inscribed by Mrs Boyle to John Murray the publisher on the front endpaper, dd Jan. 31, 1887, it is also signed on endpaper by Wifrid Blunt, June 8 1953, the author of the Art of Botanical Illustration in the New Naturalist Series . ; 8vo ( 5" x 7"); 274 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Walden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21652
- Title
- Ros Rosarum Ex Horto Poetarum - Dew of the Ever-Living Rose Gathered from the Poets' Gardens of Many Lands [signed copy]
- Author
- E.V.B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Elliot Stock
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- gardening, poetry, horticulture, roses, signed, inscribed
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About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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