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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. New Edition. 8vo, x + pp193 complete with the 23 beautiful hand coloured plates with tissue guards drawn from life by William Clark, former draughtsman and engraver of the London Horticultural Society. Hardcover no dust jacket in slipcase. Slipcase bound in red cloth and marbled paper over boards in very good+ condition with a little rubbing to edges. The book itself is bound in full red morocco leather with gilt titles, 5 raised bands and gilt designs to compartments to spine with decorative gilt borders and flowers to both boards. Binding in very good condition with a little rubbing to top & tail of spine, edges of boards and tips. Inside all pages and plates with full edge gilt in very good/near fine condition with the occasional small mark and a hint of toning to pages. A lovely early copy. William Clark (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. The Spirit of the Woods. London, Longman, Rees etc, 1837. Tall 8vo. xvi + 306pp. With 26 hand-coloured engraved plates by ?William Clark after drawings by the author. Contemporary half calf, decorative gilt spine with title, top edge gilt; very slight wear to corners. The history, description, use and symbolic association of some 36 species of tree. Most are European, but some are notably from India (the Banyan, Sandal and Ashoka trees). Mrs Hey has gathered instances of the mention of plants from classical and later literature, travellers' accounts, the Bible and folklore, to endow the species with emblematic significance. The fine accompanying coloured plates combine to exemplify two fields in which the early Victorians excelled the accomplishment of the botanical artist and their fascination with plants, due as much to the threatening nature of the Industrial Revolution as to the introduction of very many new varieties. Dedicatory inscription on front endpaper dated 1884. In very good condition, one or two leaves only with faint marginal foxing. Plesch 343. Wilfrid Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950, pp2l9-20. Nicolette Scourse, The Victorians and their Flowers, 1983, pp54-7. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st. edition 1837, complete with 26 hand coloured plates. Publishers original half calf binding, a little rubbed, but a good clean copy.