PICTURESQUE SKETCHES OF LONDON Past & Present with numerous engravings by Miller, Thomas - 1850's

Office of The National Illustrated Library, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Light thumb marking, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Hinges are moderately cracked causing boards to be slightly loose. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Office of the National Illustrated. Very Good. 1852. Hardcover. 306pp, may illustrations, pages sl browned, bound in original green blind embossed cloth, chipped top/base spine, top 3 inches spien covring missing ; Octavo .

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: The National Illustrated Library, 1852. 306 pages + ads., engraved frontis., & title vignette, 47 further illustrations. In publisher's green decorated cloth. Some bumping to extremities, split, fraying to spineendpaper detached, but present, previous owner's bookplate and name to prelims., together with a small bookseller's blind stamp, age toning, some soiling to pages, some plates loose, but all complete. Size: 200mm. x 140mm. [687] . First Edition.. Green Cloth. Very Good. 200mm. x 140mm.. Book.

Office of The National Illustrated Library. 1852. (10310) Hardback. 306 pages. Numerous B.w. illustrations. Good in dark green cloth with blind tooled decoration on front and rear boards and with dulled gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Ageing to edges of textblock. Previous owners name scribbled out in ink at front of book. This book has been rebound (rebacked) with matching green cloth and with original spine-piece reaffixed. New endpapers and pastedowns fitted to both front and rear. A sound tight clean copy.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852 First edition thus. Much of this book had appeared in the Illustrated London News. Preface dated 1852. HB. Embossed decorative green cloth, gilt titles and floral decorations to spine. 306pp. Yellow endpapers. With 50 engravings in text and plates. Not a guide book but a series of sketches 'in poetic prose' of various parts of London. A few light marks, and edges and margins browned. Split to front hinge at endpaper, various owners' names to flyleaf. Covers bright, cloth darkened to margins, lightly bumped and rubbed corners, spine ends frayed. A Good copy.

London : Robson Levey and Franklyn , 1852. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". None . Bound in tooled cloth this work explores the history of London through accounts and sketches. A first edition. Handsomely bound tooled cloth it details the complex history of London through description and illustration. The illustrations in this work fist appeared in the Illustrated London News. They are in the form of both plate and vignette illustrations. They were deemed valuable to understanding the history of London and have been given by permission to Thomas Miller for their inclusion by the National Illustrated Library.Including 49 illustrated plates and vignettes ranging from churches both internal and external to London streets. collation complete. In a blindstamped cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Rubbing to the front joint. Bumping which has resulted in loss to the head and tail of the spine. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages 99 to 110 working loose. Pages clean. Marginal age… Read More