Garden Ornament
by Gertrude Jekyll
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Country Life, London, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition. Size: Folio <19". xii + 460pp. Hinges cracked. Frontispiece loose but present. Splits to joint extremities. Top and base of spine pulled. Spine cocked and worn. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. All edges gilt in good condition. Covers worn. Corners bumped. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-5 kilos. Category: Gardening; Natural History & Resources. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 41835. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41835
- Title
- Garden Ornament
- Author
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Country Life
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- BZDB243 photography, art, architecture Gardening; Natural History & Resources. Unbranded Gertrude Jekyll Garden Ornament
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History & Resources; Gardening;
Terms of Sale
Dreadnought Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
Biblio member since 2013
Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
Glossary
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...