Picturesque Sketches of London, Past & Present
by Miller, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex
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About This Item
London: National Illustrated Library. Good/No Jacket. 1852. First Thus Edition.. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Bound in floral decorated blind-stamped boards, with floral gilt designs and gilt titles to spine, this dated 1852 hardcover First Thus Edition (Some illustrations have appeared in ILN prior to this date) is Good plus 306pp with 22 Chapters and 49 engraved illustrations, full-page and set in text. Top of spine chipped (4mm missing), bookplate of E.A. Bennett to fixed front endpaper and signature on verso of frontispiece. small pice clipped from top of FFEP, slight foxing to prelims, tiny brown mark at prelim XV where clear tape has been used to support binding: now removed. Condition Good plus .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0016469
- Title
- Picturesque Sketches of London, Past & Present
- Author
- Miller, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Good/No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- National Illustrated Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1852
- Keywords
- Sketches, of, London, (1852), Thomas, Miller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex
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About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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- ffep
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that... [More]
- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps... [More]
- spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf.... [More]
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also... [More]
- gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in... [More]
- bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former... [More]
- verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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