Eleaborately stamped brown cloth. Remains of bookplate verso front cover, some wear lower corners, usual age-toned paper. Pgs 257-258 gone, along with 1/2 lower pgs 259-272. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. Marbled text-block edges, printed double-column. "Sold by subscription only." With many wood engravngs. 512 pgs. 512 p. Seller Inventory # 033086
Title: The Growing World; or, Progress of ...
Publisher: W.M. Patterson & Co, Philadelphia/ Chicago
Publication Date: 1880
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1885.
Book Type: Book
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original olive-brown pictorial cloth, 7 ½ x 10 ¼ inches, irregular pagination, two sample spine backstrips at rear; order forms blank. Hardcover, very good. Drop marks, corners bumped with cardboard exposed there, approximately 1/8th inch fraying at head and foot of spine, paper lightly age yellowed, foxing on first and last few leaves and on and adjacent to plates, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Dummy; sample; subscription book; Victorian. Seller Inventory # 50388