The Fair Hills of Ireland. With Illustrations By Hugh Thomson.
by (THOMSON, HUGH) GWYNN, S:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Dublin & London, Maunsel & Co. (& Macmillan & Co.) 1906 1st ed.. Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. In green cloth with beautiful gilt lettering and design to front and spine. top page edges gilt. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some fading to cloth on spine and around edges of boards. Corners slightly rubbed. Else cover very clean and smart. Some minor tanning/darkening to endpapers, rear free endpaper darkened. Some areas of light mild foxing between some pages. Plates all clean and bright. No penned inscriptions. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 416pp. Illustrated with 4 full-page colored plates and 31 B&W illustrations (in text with some full-page) by Hugh Thomson.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89226
- Title
- The Fair Hills of Ireland. With Illustrations By Hugh Thomson.
- Author
- (THOMSON, HUGH) GWYNN, S:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dublin & London, Maunsel & Co. (& Macmillan & Co.) 1906 1st ed.
- Keywords
- IRELAND Ireland, Hugh Thomson, The Fair Hills, GWYNN, S., Maunsel & Co., Macmillan, 1906, 1st, first edition, decorative, gilt, coloured plates, illustrated, Topography, Dublin, St. Patrick
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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