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A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time: Illustrated by Engravings Taken from the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity, To which is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits in Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century. (Two Volumes)
by Strutt, Joseph
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Two volumes, 4to. vi, 279 pp. With a total of 153 hand-colored plates, most of them brilliantly so, with the use of gold leaf it would appear in a good many. This is an augmentation of an earlier edition from 1796 by ten plates, and the quality of the coloring further enhances the desirability of this edition. All the plates called for are present, but at least in this copy they are not in order, and in the second volume in particular it might seem that the original compiler had had too much mead as he was inserting the plates. The eccentric ordering, nonetheless, should not greatly diminish one's reveling in the images, and at the end of the second volume there is a list of all the plates and their sources. Inconspicuous embossed library seal stamp affected a few leaves of both volumes. A few tissue guards, text leaves and plate margins (and the backs of a few plates) have light foxing. An insignificant amount of other soiling. The overwhelming majority of plates are clean and fresh. Modern full blue morocco without flaws.
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- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001925
- Title
- A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time: Illustrated by Engravings Taken from the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity, To which is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits in Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century. (Two Volumes)
- Author
- Strutt, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Full Morocco
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry G. Bohn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1842
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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