A Handbook of Garden Irises [G.L. Pilkington's copy]
by Dykes, W.R
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Martin Hopkinson & Company, Ltd, 1924. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates, octavo, pp xii, 250, a bit weak internally, rather foxed, green cloth slightly worn, the upper cover a bit bleached/stained. [With the signature of Geoffrey Langton Pilkington, owner of Grayswood Hill garden, and at one time Chairman of the Iris Society. He has loosely inserted seven or eight extra colour plates.]. First Edition. Cloth. Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019008
- Title
- A Handbook of Garden Irises [G.L. Pilkington's copy]
- Author
- Dykes, W.R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Martin Hopkinson & Company, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- iris.iridaceae.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botanical/horticultural Monographs;
Terms of Sale
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...