knight edward step (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Boards have some wear. Content is clean and has light age tone. Owner name to end paper. No DJ.

Hardback. Zustand: Acceptable. No Jacket. Volume One only, undated hardback (circa early 20th century) with no jacket as published. 7 x 9.5 inches, 288 pages, 1Kg. 351 beautiful illustrations and 9 coloured plates. In overall acceptable to good condition. Red cloth boards quarter-bound in red leather are worn to corners, with leather rubbed away at spine head and tail. Gilt titles to spine still have lustre, with some rubbing to spine edges. Binding tight with crack to gutter at ffep, no annotations or inscriptions - Cafe Royale stamp (upside down) to front pastedown. A 2 x 1 inch piece of the ffep has been neatly cut off the top rh corner presumably to remove a name or inscription. No foxing or tanning, red-stippled page ends, text, plates and illustrations clean and clear throughout. A good reading copy.

Hardback. Alfred Ernest Knight and Sir Harry Johnston (illustrator). This lovely hardback 1905 edition of The Living Plant in Leaf Flower and Fruit A Popular Book on Botany for the General Reader by Alfred Ernest Knight and Edward Step is bound in green cloth with alledge gilt bright gold gilt lettering and intricate blind tooling encircling the title on the cover and mimicking the appearance of vines Inside one finds iviii and 420 pages of text peppered with A E Knights intricate black ink illustrations his more detailed fullpage botanical artworks and some contemporary black and white photographs The stunning fullcolour frontispiece of Ragwort from a painting by Sir Harry Johnston sets the tone for this fascinating book which is at once a feast for the eyes and the mind This copy is in very good condition though there is some slight bumping to the edges some yellowing and inscriptions to the free endpaper and some sligth splitting at the hinges this copy remains otherwise remarkably clean and readable given its age and rarity The Living Plant is looking for a new home where it will be similarly enjoyed and appreciated nbsp nbsp. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition with no wrapper. The Fascinating Story of the World's Plants Told in a Popular Manner. Three-quarter red leather bindings. Red cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. Red speckled text block. Volume I with 351 b/w photos and illustrations plus 9 coloured plates. Volume II with 370 b/w illustrations and photos plus 9 coloured plates. Light rubbing to leather. A few marks to boards. Browning to edges of pastedowns. Small nibble to vertical edge of front endpaper. Hinges pulled with creasing to volume I. A few minor grubby margin marks. Insect damage to rear joint of both volumes. All colour plates present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.