The Shakspere Flora: a guide to all the principal passages in which mention is made of trees, plants, flowers, and vegetable productions; with comments and botanical particulars
by Grindon, Leo H
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- Fine
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- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
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Holywell, Flintshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Manchester: Palmer & Howe, 1883. 1st edition. Rebound in quarter leather with antique cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Rebound by Paul Delrue in quarter leather with antique cloth covering boards, new green end papers, gilt logo "The Shakspere Flora" on red cloth from original cover inserted on front pastedown, top edge gilt, hand-sewn silk head and foot bands; original loose tissue guard to frontispiece. Grindon's most accomplished work, in which he analyses every reference to plants in the works of Shakespeare - and there are lots, as the names alone occupy 12 columns of closely printed type in the index. xii, 327 pp., includes index of subscribers to large paper edition.
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- Bookseller
- Acanthophyllum Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6698
- Title
- The Shakspere Flora: a guide to all the principal passages in which mention is made of trees, plants, flowers, and vegetable productions; with comments and botanical particulars
- Author
- Grindon, Leo H
- Format/Binding
- Rebound in quarter leather with antique cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Manchester: Palmer & Howe
- Date Published
- 1883
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