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VOL #1: WANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS IN NORTH WALES [AND] VOL #2 ; WANDERING AND EXCURSIONS IN SOUTH WALES INCLUDING THE SCENERY OF THE RIVER WYE
by Roscoe, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Wrighton and Webb. Very Good+. 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. Quarter green leather over green cloth. Raised bands and gilt decorated panels. Pictorial frontispiece and half title page. #1 North Wales: Illustrated with fifty-one engravings by Radclyffe, from drawings by Cattermole, Cox, Creswick & c. (16) 261pp. #2 South Wales: Scenery of the River Wye. Forty-eight engravings, by Radclyffe from the drawings by Cox, Harding, Fielding, Creswick, Watson. (15) 268pp. Marbled end papers. Corners & spine ends lightly rubbed. England, Wales, Travel; Engravings; 8vo; 529 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17101
- Title
- VOL #1: WANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS IN NORTH WALES [AND] VOL #2 ; WANDERING AND EXCURSIONS IN SOUTH WALES INCLUDING THE SCENERY OF THE RIVER WYE
- Author
- Roscoe, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Wrighton and Webb
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1836
- Keywords
- Western Europe, Wales
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel Guides;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Raised Band(s)
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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