Young Botanists: First Edition (3 results)

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 128pp. Frontispiece, 33 plates, 6 text figures. Original light brown cloth, dustwrapper. This is an ex-library copy, with occasional stamps and labels, but the book and the dustwrapper are nonetheless in good to very good condition overall.…

Decorated Brown Velvet Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Published. First Edition. [1836], first edition, xi, 166pp, 1p publisher adverts, 3 black & white engravings with tissue guards, some foxing, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers, contemporary brown velvet with blind-blocked decoration to both boards, gilt spine lattering, faded, spine rubbed and worn Size: 5.75 x 3.75 Inches. 19th Century Literature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 12mo. Hand-coloured frontis, and two further coloured plates. [iii-v], vi-xi [i], 166, (2) (ads). Original green bubbled cloth, with small decoration to spine, skilfully rebacked, spine relaid, original yellow endpapers retained, small booksellers label Poynder, next to General Post Office, Reading. An excellent copy, clean and tight. Please note that the collation of our example differs from the Opie copy, in that ours does not have a half title, and there is one leaf of ads (the Opie copy appears to have three ad leaves). Presumably this is a publishing variant, as this example is in the original publisher's cloth. A rare item, all the more so in this condition. Library Hub gives only examples in Oxford (Opie: collection number 012:016) and at the BL.…