Life in Ponds and Streams by W. Furneaux (Longmans, Green and Co., 1911) decorative cloth binding with dustwrapper
Life in Ponds and Streams
W. Furneaux
Longmans, Green and Co., new impression 1911
A good standard work originally published 1896 with several later printings, this copy from 1911. Well illustrated with b/w line drawings plus eight colour plates.
Hardback – publisher’s cloth with gilt title to spine and frog decoration to front, page-block with top edge gilt, in dustwrapper. xix, 406pp including b/w illustrations plus colour plates. 8 x 5.5 inches approx. (202mm x 141mm).
Cloth lovely and clean, a touch pushed-in to spine ends. Dustwrapper worn to top edge with small loss and with sellotape staining to reverse side; age tanning to spine and rear panel, tanned to reverse side; wear to corner tips. Offsetting to endpapers; occasional foxing, dustiness or grubby mark but generally pages clean throughout; tissue guards very tanned.
Overall, light wear but unusual to find in such nice, clean condition and with original dustwrapper – quite lovely.
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