Monumental Brasses by James Mann - 1957

Penguin Books, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. First Edition. 32 pages. Pictorial Dust jacket over identical paper cover boards. 32 colour illustrated plates throughout. Light tanning to pages; more prominent to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has slight crushing to ends. Visible but light chipping to paper covering overall. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate foxing and tanning to inner panels. Scribble top edge of front panel.

Penguin Books Ltd, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. First Edition. 72 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black illustrated paper covered boards with lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

London: Penguin Books, 1957. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st pub 1957. 40pp + 32plates. 12mo. Very good condition w/dj

Penguin, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

King Penguin No. 75, London., 1901. vg / good. vg 1st 1957 King Penguin in good dw (1 inch by 1.5 inch piece missing) hardcover book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Penguin Books (King Penguin) 1st 1955 . 8vo, small tear, chips, wear + sl spotting to d/w o/w VG+/VG 155 gms.

Penguin Books, London and New York, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. foreword by author, works of reference and index. The text is illustrated with the 32 pages of aforementioned illustrations. Illustrated boards with yellow coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper, same illustration as underlying boards, with yellow coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. "There are no better introduction to English mediaeval life and art than the study of English monumental brasses. They can tell us so much in the clearest possible way. We can know from these beautifully drawn figures what our forebears look like. They make it easy for us to learn something of the symbolism of religious faith, the who's who of heraldry, and the details of Gothic architecture." – from the front fold over panel blurb. King Penguin -- 75.… Read More

Harmonsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1957. 12mo, pp. 40, 32 plates. Owner's name on flyleaf, cover and dj very slightly worn at edges, o/w a nice copy. A discussion of medieval brasses, with 32 drawings. The author corrects the mistakes other writers have made in describing the armor worn in many of these examples.

London: Penguin Books, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. 5 x 8 in. Paper boards. Condition is FINE ; like new on all points. DJ is VERY GOOD+ ; very clean, a few chips. Art. Stax.

GB: Penguin King Penguin, 1957. (2 copies). 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG DW.