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Wakefield, Priscilla.
An Introduction to Botany, In a Series of Familiar Letters, with Illustrative Engravings.
Publisher: Printed by and for Darton and Harvey and others, London;
Date of Publication: 1807
Stock Code: 12412
Fifth Edition. 12 mo., pp. xiii,180 (irregular pagination but complete). With 12 hand-coloured plates and fold-out Table as called for, also bound out of order. Quarter bound in the original publishers’ boards and housed in bespoke navy cloth clam-shell box with gilt titles to spine. Lacks spine but binding still firmly holding; boards soiled, with small surface loss to paper of lower board. A little foxing to text-block edge; minor loss to corner tips of 3 leaves affecting margin only, and small loss approx. 5 cm x 2 cm to p. 25/6; 2 cm closed tear to margin p.7. Box clean and bright. A good copy in fine box.
Instructional text by the Quaker philanthropist, feminist and prolific author (1751-1832) with exquisitely coloured plates.
£85.00
An Introduction to Botany, In a Series of Familiar Letters, with Illustrative Engravings.
Date of Publication: 1807
Stock Code: 12412
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