Hervey a B Descriptive Text (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A surprisingly clean and stain-free, sound and solid, firm and tight copy of this lovely book. In heavy-duty full cloth binding. All exterior page edges are gilt, which is still very bright and shiny. The book stands 12" tall. There have been several different editions of this book, with varying numbers of illustrations. This 1892 edition has ten full-page color plates, each under tissue guard, each sutiable for framing. The reverse side of all the plates is blank. The book has no significant flaws, but take note of the following: The embossed gold lettering on the front cover, is faded but remains legible; there is slight rubbing to the cloth binding at the spine ends, at the corners, and at various spots along the board edges, but the cloth is not torn, not fraying, and not worn through; the bottom front corner is lightly bumped, all other corners unbumped ; previous owners name is neatly, inobtrusively rubber stamped on the first two blank pages; and the pages have a soft, uniform patina from age. The book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, very firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, torn, folded, creased, or missing. All tissue guards are present and intact. The hinges are sound and undamaged. All pages are clean and stain free, and all text and illustrations are sharp and legible, the color in the illustrations remains bright. Aside from the previous owner's name, as noted, there is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or other such markings anywhere in the book. Five-star seller, buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. B54.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Troy, NY: H.B. Nims and Company. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1886. . Hardcover. 4to., N.P., Shelf wear; corners bumped; tail of spine fraying; some plates loose; cracked inner hinge; stain at bottom left corner of front cover; spine faded; scratches on back cover; all edges gilded; pages clean and unmarked. . Color Plates (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1899, Good to Very Good/no dj, quarto, unpaginated (c.60pp), green cloth hardcover, complete with 10 full-page color plates, slight water-stain top margins and outer margins of some pages but plates not affected, binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green cloth cover with gold lettering is starting to separate at front and shows some wear. Gilt around all page edges. Wonderful color drawings by Isaac Sprague. With extracts from Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, Holmes and Others Clean book. Pictures on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition Thus, Copyright Date: 1885, Quarto, Hardcover, Rebacked With New Blue Cloth Spines, Gray Boards And Gilt Lettered Spine, Two Volumes, Aeg, 1885, Unpaginated, Originally Published In Four Volumes As Beautiful Wild Flowers, Flowers Of The Field & Forest, Wayside Flowers & Ferns By Hervey And Beautiful Ferns By Eaton Descriptive Text Includes Extracted Material From Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, Holmes And Others Former Ex. Library Book However The External Marking Have Been Eliminated With The New Backing, Embossed Stamp At Title Page And Plates, New End Papers Quarto, Hardcover, Rebacked With New Blue Cloth Spines, Gray Boards And Gilt Lettered Spine, Two Volumes, Aeg. From Original Water Color Drawings After Nature EAch Chromo Lithographic Plate Tissue Guarded, Ten Plates Per Original Title For A Total Of Forty, Five of the Plates In Volume I I Beautiful Ferns Have Two Illustrations Per Plate (illustrator).…