mewen george (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dark green pebbled cloth with title in gilt on front cover and ruled lines blindstamped onto covers just inside the edges. Pale yellow endpapers. Title is handwritten neatly in contemporary handwriting (c.1859) in black ink on spine. Condition: Good, covers have light rubbing and shelfwear and light bumpint to cover corners and head and tail of spine. Cloth at head of spine beginning to fray. Previous owners name neatly written at top right of title page. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. This book was published after the authors death, and was edited an enlarged by John Cox. 52pp. plus publishers list. Beautiful hand-coloured frontispiece of the "Late Admirable" variety of peach. Includes chapters on all aspects of peach and nectarine cultivation, together with lists to the rear of types of peaches and nectarines, including lists of new American and French varieties supplied by Thomas Rivers of the eponymous nursery in Sawbridgeworth. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Gilt and blind stamped boards are well preserved and The bulk of the interior is very clean However at some stage in the past an amateur repair has been carried out and a modern glue has been used to try to hold the book together. This has been largely reversed but the endpaper is missing. A thin paper guard has been fixed to the rear of the frontispiece - visible in the second picture. The remains of the modern glue can be sen at the top of the rear of the fronis. It can also be seen on the front of the frontispiece in the second picture . there is also a smaller trace of it on the rear of the title page. 52 pages plus 4 pages of publisher's catalogue.

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 76. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1859 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 76.

pp. frontis, v, [iii], 52 plus 4-pages of Groombridge adverts. 8vo. Hand-col. frontispiece with further line drawings in text. Minor amount of scattered foxing, o/w. contents thor. vg. Original green cloth boards with handsome blind tooling and gilt lettering. Showing minor wear to spine, o/w. a thor. vg. hardback.

Original Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Pp. viii 52, plus 4pp publishers list at the end, hand coloured frontispiece, publishers blind stamped dark green cloth (slight wear to the extremiies, corners bumped with boards showing through), expertly rebacked preserving the old backstrip, new endpapers, title and preface lightly foxed, modern woodcut bookplate on front pastedown, 8vo (176x113mm).