A E Knight and Edward Step (5 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. Hutchinson's Popular Botany, two-volume set, by A E Knight and Edward Step, FLS. Hardback, undated but circa 1920s, published by Hutchinson & Co, London, vii + 588 pages. Over 700 black and white illustrations and containing 18 colour plates. Quarto/4to, measuring around 7 1/2" by 9 3/4" by 1 1/4" each. Green quarter-leather and cloth binding, gilt lettering and decoration to spines A little marking to binding but quite clean and colouring still vivid for cloth Heavy scuffing to leather areas in particular, spines especially, with discolouration also. Rubbing at edges and on hinges Slightly bumped and torn corners Some slackness to bindings, a bit of strain to textblocks, but contents reasonably firm. Page edges speckled red. A little browning, other marking and scuffing to page edges but reasonably clean. A little writing to front pastedowns and endpapers. The odd mark to page surfaces but otherwise clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc See pictures for further information. …

Condition: VG-, NO DJs. hardcover. 8vo. 588pp in 2 vol. NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. Spines a bit cocked, bit of wear to. heels of spines, a little wear to extremities. This set printed in Great Britain, but it doesn't say who published. it, or when it was published! Worldwide search indicates the UK version. was by Hutchinson, London, 1913.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Circa 1920. TWO VOLUMES in Hardback. 25x18cm. A total of 588 pages with index and black & white photos. 9 colour plates in each volume. Bright gilt lettering and decoration. Volume Two has a short tear at the top of the spine. Clean & tight books. No inscriptions. NO JACKETS. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref Q989. Hutchinson's Popular Botany Volumes 1 & 2. The living plant from seed to fruit - the fascinating story of the world's plants told in a popular manner.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A two volume edition of "Hutchinson's Popular Botany: The Living Seed From Plant To Fruit". Volume I has 351 illustrations and 9 coloured plates. Volume II has 370 illustrations and 9 coloured plates. The books claim to be "a fascinating story of the World's plants told in a popular manner" and they are indeed delightful.…