VERY GOOD COPY IN BROWN PAPER COVERS WHICH ARE WORN ON THE SPINE. INTERNALLY VERY GOOD. (FROM THE TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN) ISSUED JUNE 7TH 1899.
VERY GOOD COPY BUT LACKS TITLE PAGE. DUSTWRAP IS WORN WITH A VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF LOSS. WHOLE PAGE PLATES IN NATURAL COLOUR. PREVIOUS OWNER`S NAME IN INK ON F.E.P.
FIRST EDITION NEAR FINE HARDBACK IN SIMILAR DUSTWRAPPER. LOOSELY INSERTED ‘BOOKMARK KEY TO SPECIES’. 252 PAGES WITH COLOUR PLATES FIGURES AND DISTRIBUTION MAPS.
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED COPY. NEW – STILL IN THE SHRINK WRAPPER. NEW NATURALIST SERIES – NUMBER 120. THE NATURAL HISTORY AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE SPECIES FOUND IN BRITAIN.
LIMITED TO 295 COPIES FOLIO (14 BY 19.5 INCHES) HALF MOROCCO OVER MARBLED BOARDS WITH MATCHING SLIPCASE. THIS IS NUMBER 295 SIGNED BY BLUNT AND SITWELL. PRINTED ON ‘AMSTEL’ SPECIAL MOULD-MADE PAPER AND BOUND AT THE WIGMORE BINDERY LONDON. 36 FULL PLATES. EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED.
LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES FOLIO (14 BY 19.5 INCHES) HALF LEATHER OVER GREEN BOARDS. PRINTED ON ‘GELDERLAND’ WHITE CARTRIDGE AND BOUND BY MANSELLS OF LONDON. 36 FULL PLATES. VERY GOOD. EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED.
NEW HARDBACK BOOK IN DUSTWRAP. THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO THE AUTHORS AND TO OTHERS WHO HAD THE STAMINA AND DETERMINATION TO PERSEVERE WITH THE PUBLICATION OF THEIR WORKS. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS.
Author:
DESMOND RAY
Place, Publisher, Date:
2003 THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND OAK KNOLL PRESS, LONDON
LARGE FORMAT. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. A LITTLE FOXING ON F.E.P. THE ROYAL HOUSES OF FOURTEEN COUNTRIES – CASTLES FORTS COUNTRY-HOUSES AND PALACES – ARE THE SUBJECT OF THIS SUPERB BOOK. THEY PROVIDE A RICH AND EXOTIC PICTURE OF THE AWESOME SPLENDOUR WHICH ONCE SURROUNDED THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE AND WHICH STILL LINGERS IN THE DESERTED THRONE ROOMS STATE BEDCHAMBERS COURTYARDS AND GARDENS OF VERSAILLES SCHONBRUNN THE ESCORIAL OR THE WINTER PALACE.
FIRST U.S. EDITION CARD COVERS pp x 308. A POOR BINDING WITH LOSS TO THE TOP OF THE SPINE WEAK HINGES LOSS OF FEP. CONTENTS AGE-TONED THROUGHOUT. A WORKING COPY. VERY SCARCE.
THE NEW EDITION CAREFULLY REVISED. QUARTO FINE BROWN FULL MOROCCO BINDING WITH ALL EDGES GILT. MANY ENGRAVED PLATES AFTER FIELDING CRESWICK ET AL. SLIGHT FOXING TO PRELIMS. INSCRIPTION THEN VERY CLEAN. AN ATTRACTIVE AND BRIGHT COPY.