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LOIDIS AND ELMETE; OR, AN ATTEMPT TO ILLUSTRATE THE DISTRICTS DESCRIBED ...
by Thomas Dunham Whitaker -
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Very Good with no dust jacket
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Leeds / Wakefield, England: Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, and John Hurst. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio 13" - 23" tall; Loidis and Elmete; or, an Attempt To Illustrate the Districts Described in Those Words by Bede; and Supposed To Embrace the Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale, together with the Entire Vale of Calder, in the County of York, England. 404 pages plus 2 pages of directions to the binder and plates. In one volume. Width: 11.5" Height: 17.5". Bound in full contemporary leather with raised bands and stamped gilt lettering to spine panels. Light wear, with scuffing and light soiling to covers. Spine labels display chipping and narrow cracking. Binding is firm and text solid, with reinforced hinges. Marbled endpapers and edges. Antique armorial bookplate appears on front pastedown; provenance- Charles Stewart Hardy. Very occasional (light) foxing. This lavishly illustrated work contains an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, color title vignette, as well as many additional plates, textual illustrations and decorative initial letters. Book also presents a number of double-page and fold-out family trees. Re-backed in leather with original covers. .
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- Title
- LOIDIS AND ELMETE; OR, AN ATTEMPT TO ILLUSTRATE THE DISTRICTS DESCRIBED ...
- Author
- Thomas Dunham Whitaker -
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, and John Hurst
- Place of Publication
- Leeds / Wakefield, England
- Date Published
- 1816
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- Gilt
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