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Legare Street Press, 2021-09-09. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Legare Street Press, 2021-09-09. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Legare Street Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1842 (new edition)/ 1800+ ('appeared in parts, commencing in the year 1800', according to the preface in the new edition). Large quarto, vi, 102 pages with 58 full-page hand-coloured engravings 'containing upwards of two hundred and twenty figures and descriptions', complete with all the original tissue-guards. These illustrations were produced from the original plates engraved circa 1800, with captions amended to incorporate revised taxonomy; numbers were also added to all individual figures and the plates themselves. The very fine hand-colouring is contemporary. Contemporary half morocco and marbled papered boards, top edge gilt; leather on the corner tips and spine renewed, retaining the original backstrip (lettered and decorated in gilt in compartments); minor (and unobtrusive) surface worming to the exterior of the binding; minimal restoration to the leading edge of the three preliminary leaves, the second-last leaf and… Read More