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A History of British Butterflies
by Morris, F.O
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1857. viii, 168, 29, 71 col + 2 plain plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, cont. full panelled morocco, gilt and black rules to both boards with decorative gilt corner motifs, raised bands to spine with gilt rules to compartments, aeg, marbled endpapers, gt inner dentelles. Some light rubbing/scuffing and a few very minor marks to rear board. Some heavy foxing to endpapers, title, the two plain plates and adjacent text leaves, occasional light spotting elsewhere, slightly heavier to one plate, which also has browning to inner edge where a bookmark has previously been located. One plate bound inverted. A finely bound copy. Very good.. First reissue (first published 1853). Fine hand-coloured plates, printed by Benjamin Fawcett.McLean 15..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A50845
- Title
- A History of British Butterflies
- Author
- Morris, F.O
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Groombridge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- Britain; Butterflies; Rhopalocera; Lepidoptera; Hand-coloured Plates
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About Pemberley Natural History Books
Pemberley Books
Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
Glossary
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- 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....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
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