Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, copies from the manuscript collections of the late Rev Frederick Brown (6 volumes; first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth series).
by Rev Frederick Brown, edited by Frederick Arthur Crisp:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Privately printed for Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1887-1890. First edition, complete in six hardback volumes. 8vo, 135pp; 136pp; 148pp; 168pp; 129pp; 125pp. Uniformly bound in white parchement spines, blue boards, gilt titling to the spines, top edges gilt. Some darkening of the spines, some scuffing to the boards of the fifth and sixth volumes, endpapers browned, ownership inscription to the title page of each volume, newpaper cutting (an obituary of Rev Frederick Brown) pasted to a blank page at the front of the first volume. Overall, this set is in good to very good condition. Each volume is limited to 150 copies; all six volumes are signed by Frederick Arthur Crisp and numbered "99".
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- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26399
- Title
- Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, copies from the manuscript collections of the late Rev Frederick Brown (6 volumes; first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth series).
- Author
- Rev Frederick Brown, edited by Frederick Arthur Crisp:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately printed for Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1887-1890.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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