Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees
by EVELYN (John)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Doubleday and Co., [c. 1908]. First edition thus. Very Good +. Two volumes, 8vo., original green cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author in the first volume and five plates. A very nice reprint of the fourth (1706) edition of the famous diarist's work on trees. with some neat underlining and marginalia in pencil
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Details
- Bookseller
- Abbey Bookshop (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78
- Title
- Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees
- Author
- EVELYN (John)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [c. 1908]
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...