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1862 Useful Plants Of Great Britain By C Johnson 25 Sowerby Hand Coloured Plates
REF: ES1936-NL59 / LA462544
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Description
The Useful Plants of Great Britain
A treatise by C. Pierpoint Johnson
Illustrated by John E. Sowerby
Published by Robert Hardwick, London [1862]
Hardback bound in the original cloth cover with gilt decorated front board & embossed design to rear board. Complete with 25 hand coloured plates numbered 1-25 & plate 11 being the frontis
Book measures approx 9 x 7 inches with 324 pages.
measurements
Height:
9 in
Width:
7 in
declaration
Elder Books & Collectables has clarified that the 1862 Useful Plants Of Great Britain By C Johnson 25 Sowerby Hand Coloured Plates (LA462544) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1862
condition
Minor wear at top & bottom of spine, corners bumped, light browning & foxing to endpapers, half title & last index page, few pages to the middle of book with creases to margin [see last image]. Very occasional small closed tear to page margin, name & date to top of title page
Overall a lovely copy with plates clean & fresh & gilt to cover bright
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Date of Manufacture:
1862
location
This 1862 Useful Plants Of Great Britain By C Johnson 25 Sowerby Hand Coloured Plates is located in Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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