Curtis’s Botanical Magazine Vol. VI of the Third Series William Jackson Hooker 1850
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
William Jackson Hooker
London: Reeve and Benham, 1850
Offered here is Volume VI of the Third Series, No.s 4486 to 4553.
Sixty-eight hand-coloured plates, some fold-out.
Hardback – publisher’s cloth binding with gilt titling to spine, blind floral design to boards. 10.25 x 6.75 inches approx. (282mm x 169mm).
Some splitting to cloth at hinges to head and tail of spine. Signs of bookplate removed to front paste-down; some splitting to inner hinges; pages foxed/spotted throughout, mainly to margins, with occasional offsetting; pages dusty and marked in places but otherwise generally clean with bright plates; some notes in ink to one page; occasional open gutter; edges of page-block dusty.
Overall, showing wear commensurate with age and storage but otherwise a nice, presentable copy.
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