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London, Elliot Stock, 1886. 8vo. 235mm by 155mm. (pp. 347), original quarter blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt within gilt line border, contrasting purple cloth sides, edges untrimmed, A very good copy of the second edition, bookplate on front endpaper of the late N. A. Whinfrey of Punch Magazine and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. extremities a little rubbed but binding firm, half-title and titlepage lightly foxed but contents clean, no inscriptions or markings, complete.

London: Elliot Stock, 1895. 347 pages. Contents detached from boards and spine, a simple job for a bookbinder. First edition 1886.. Cheap Edition. Hardback. Good Reading Copy/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Elliot Stock, 1886. 347 pages, blue cloth binding with burgundy boards, gilt lettering, binding very good with slight wear only. Contents clean, some uncut pages, attractive bookplate from Chateau des Rozais home of Gosset, French architect. A very good copy of a title that is becoming hard to find.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Book.

(London): Elliot Stock, 1886. Two volumes. x; 347; (i) pages. Bound at the rear is an additional eighteenth century twenty-nine page " Travelling Index of the Great Roads in Devonshire." GRANGERISED COPY with the addition of 122 prints, maps, aquatints, sketches etc. Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards just slightly rubbed. A fine example of an extra-illustrated book. In 1796 James Granger published a "Biographical History of England" with blank leaves for the addition of portraits, etc to be illustrated by the purchaser, hence grangerising. Books thus illustrated are often found in sumptuous bindings, filled with neatly inserted extra illustrations bound in. A FINE EXAMPLE. First Edit. Half-Leather. Near Fine.. 8vo. Book.