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1873 Flowering Plants Grasses Sedges & Ferns of Britain by Anne Pratt 6 x Vols
REF: ES1928-NL58 / LA459771
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Description
The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies The Club Mosses, Pepperworts & Horsetails by Anne Pratt
Published by Frederick Warne & Co, London Circa 1873
Complete in six volumes
Hardbacks bound in the original decorated cloth bindings, complete with 318 full page plates with 317 in colour, only 39 plates to volume 2 which appears to be as issued & usual with other copies, remaining books having the correct number of plates stated to spines.
Each book measures approx 9" x 6 inches.
Well illustrated set on plants and grasses bound in the original bindings.
measurements
Height:
9 in
Width:
6 in
declaration
Elder Books & Collectables has clarified that the 1873 Flowering Plants Grasses Sedges & Ferns of Britain by Anne Pratt 6 x Vols (LA459771) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1873
condition
Some minor rubbing to gilt on spines with very slight variation in colour to a couple of spines, minor wear at top & bottom of spines, corners bumped, minor marks to boards, some occasional light foxing or minor mark or crease to pages, some uneveness to occasional pages at fore-edges.
Overall the books are very good with all boards well attached.
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Date of Manufacture:
1873
location
This 1873 Flowering Plants Grasses Sedges & Ferns of Britain by Anne Pratt 6 x Vols is located in Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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