THE WONDERS OF THE PLANT WORLD
by G. F. Scott Elliott:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Seeley and Co., 1910 Good. boards intermittently stained and faded, corners bumped, edges of spine creased. Inscription and prize book plate, boards slightly loose, text block mainly tight, intermittent foxing to early and late pages, some page corners creased and chipped. Octavo, pp165, frontispiece and b&w plates. Describes plants from around the world for young people.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42209
- Title
- THE WONDERS OF THE PLANT WORLD
- Author
- G. F. Scott Elliott:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Seeley and Co., 1910
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
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theberton suffolk
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.