Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places (6 Vol Set)
Author:
THORNBURY, WALTER & WALFORD, EDWARD
Title:
Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places (6 Vol Set)
Publisher:
Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York N/D
Description:
6 VOL SET, imperial octavo, half leather bound brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering with raised bands & tooling/decoration to spines, marbled page edges, frontispieces & vignettes to prelims of each vol, varied pagination, illus, VG- (varying degrees of rubbing & scuffing to leatherwork- mostly quite heavy, moderate to heavy cracking to hinges of spines/boards, light to moderate loss & chipping to top spine edge of vol 5, heavy chipping & loss to top edge of spine to vol 6, moderate to heavy tanning & discolouration/staining to page edges- internal & external, moderate cracking to some gutters, prev. bookseller's sm plate to ffeps of all vols, moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to eps of all vols, heavy staining to edges of prelims to vol 2- ffep heavily chipped at edges also, varying degrees of foxing throughout all vols- mostly quite minor, occasional minor closed tearing to some page edges, heavy staining to prelims of vol 6)
Keywords:
England Great Britain English British cities London history culture