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Modern Athenians
by Crombie Benjamin W
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1882. Hardcover. Good +. Crombie. Quarto. Publisher's quarter pebbled calf and green cloth with gilt titles on spine, upper edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Xvi, 183pp + plates. 48 hand coloured tissue guarded double plates. This edition limited to 1040 copies and signed by publisher on limitation page. With illustrative notes and biographical sketches by William Scott Douglas. Some shelf wear and small marks on front. Generally the plates are in very good clean condition, one tissue guard absent. Ex reference library with pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown, blind stamp on title page, last page and first plate, faint number on reverse of title page. No other obvious library markings. ***Over 1kg and may required extra overseas postage***
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2197
- Title
- Modern Athenians
- Author
- Crombie Benjamin W
- Illustrator
- Crombie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- Edinburgh, edinburgh worthies, 19th century men, scottish biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Scottish Interest; Biography;
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