The Four Minsters Round the Wrekin: Buildwas, Haughmond, Lilleshull and Wenlock with Ground Plans
by WALCOTT, Mackenzie E.C
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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SHREWSBURY, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Shrewsbury: Adnitt & Naunton & London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1877. Very scarce and attractive volume, in the original blind-decorated and panelled red leather boards, floral designs to upper and lower panels of both boards, gilt titles and leaf design to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, rubbing/wear to corners and to spine at head and heel and along its length (lettering clear), all edges gilt, blue ribbon marker is detached from its anchor in the spine, hinges good, endpapers may have been replaced (?), foxing stains to prelims, title page and frontispiece plate, showing the abbey seals, also some foxing to text pages within, but not serious; 8 sepia photographs, all generally in very good condition; 4 abbey plans, all with some foxing, but more to Buildwas and Lilleshull [sic]; 4 fold-out drawings of the abbeys, all with slight foxing, more to Wenlock; the stitching is strained at various points, more seriously in two places, with cracking and straining, (the pages protrude at the fore-edge), but the stitching and binding still hold, and the book is complete in every respect. There is an inserted small newspaper cutting, undated, about the auction at Lilleshall [sic] in more recent times, with details about the history of estates and abbey. Gough's 'History of Myddle' from the same publisher, 1875 printing, cloth binding, also available.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good.
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- Bookseller
- Nigel Sustins Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005151
- Title
- The Four Minsters Round the Wrekin: Buildwas, Haughmond, Lilleshull and Wenlock with Ground Plans
- Author
- WALCOTT, Mackenzie E.C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Shrewsbury: Adnitt & Naunton & London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co
- Date Published
- 1877
- Keywords
- Minsters Wrekin Buildwas Haughmond Lilleshall Wenlock Shrewsbury Shropshire Walcott Abbeys
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- History; Topography;
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