Pycraft D (4 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9781857329070. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION. PUBLISHED IN 1921. BEAUTIFUL BOOK ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR AND BLACK BY ROLAND GREEN. DARK RED HARDCOVER WITH GILT TITLES. SPINE BUMPED ON TOP AND BOTTOM AND VERY SMALL HOLE IN SPINE. SOME PULLING OF SPINE ON REVERSE OF BOOK.INTERIOR OF BOOK GOOD BUT PULLING ON SOME PAGES., NO MARKS. INSIDE FRONT COVER THERE IS A SMALL BROWN PAPER RUNNING DOWN INTERIOR SPINE TO SECURE IT.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pea green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in black. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (xiv), 942 pp with 12 colour plates and over 900 monochrome illustrations in the text. Foxing to the end papers, ink name and address to the front paste down. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with small nicks across the top edge of the front cover, one small chip to the foot of the spine, not price clipped, 21/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage and insurance will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. NATURAL HISTORY.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Interesting cloth collection on a variety of agricultural subjects, three volumes being illustrated editions. A collection of eight individual works on the topics of nature, agriculture and farming. Includes one first edition.Comprised of:(1854) Chemistry Applied to Agriculture by John Anthony Chaptal;(1868) Hand-Book of Farm Labour by John Chalmers Morton*;(1870) Successful Farming by the Rev. W. Holt Beever;(1912) The Soil by A. D. Hall;(1912) Fertilisers and Manures by A. D. Hall;(1919) Elements of Agriculture by W. Fream, ed. by J. R. Ainsworth-Davis;(1928) Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields by W. P. Pycraft - first edition.*Two volumes bound in one, with (1868) The Chemistry of Food by Charles A. Cameron.All bound in publisher's original cloth. Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields includes the gilt stamp of King Edward's School, Birmingham, as well as the prize bookplate, dated 1927-28. Hand-Book of Farm Labour features the inscription of agricultural author, J. P. Sheldon.The Soil is illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve plates. Fertilisers and Manures features seven plates. Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields features forty plates, including the frontispiece. Collated, complete. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Inscription of Professor J. P. Sheldon to front free endpaper of Hand-Book of Farm Labour. Inscriptions to both endpapers, stretching across title page, to Successful Farming. Stamp of The White House Country Life Museum to front paste down of Elements of Agriculture. King Edward's School, Birmingham, prize bookplate to front paste down of Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields, dated 1927-28. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing and a few marks to each volume. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture and Fertilisers and Manures feature more distinctive marks to the front boards. Internally, firmly bound, with the exception of Chemistry Applied to Agriculture, which is marginally more delicate. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture and Elements of Agriculture include scattered pencil annotations. All volumes generally bright and clean with spotting heavier to first and last few pages. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture suffering from a noticeable tide mark throughout. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…