Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History): the Jurassic Flora: I - the Yorkshire Coast
by A. C. Seward
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
British Museum, 1900. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1900. No Edition Remarks. 341 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth. I. Contains black and white plates. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper and pastedown. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Scuffing to front free endpaper. Pages 341 - Plate III are detached but still present. Tape repairs throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Black and white marks and scratches to boards. Textblock is shaky.
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- Title
- Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History): the Jurassic Flora: I - the Yorkshire Coast
- Author
- A. C. Seward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- British Museum
- Date Published
- 1900
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- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....