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. Cloth edition with blind-stamped floral designs and gilt lettering to front (no title to spine), some wear/pushing to corners, wear/splitting to spine ends, abrasion to lower edge of front board, some strain to hinges, dust/foxing to edges, brown stains to endpapers, foxing to frontispiece plate, showing the abbey seals, and to abbey plans; 8 sepia photographs in very good condition, as are the double-page drawings of the abbeys; some foxing and handling marks within, but generally a better than average copy of this rare work. 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 #
- 007249
- 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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