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History of Hertfordshire, Containing an Account of the Descents of the Various Manors; Pedigrees of Families Connected with the County; Antiquities, Local Customs &c. &c.
by Cussans, John Edwin
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London and Hertford: Chatto and Windus and Stephen Austin & Sons, 1870. Three volumes complete, 1870-1881 - Volume One - [7], viii-xii, [1], 10-216pp; [5], 6-206pp; [3], 6-203pp, [1]; Volume Two - [5], 6-174pp; [4], 7-290pp; [4], 7-334pp and Volume Three - [8], 7-394pp; [5], 8-346pp. Contemporary half morocco and pebble grain cloth, raised bands, spines in six panels, title lettered direct to second panel, author and volume to third and hundreds to fourth, remaining panels with central floral spray tool, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Worn to extremities with some loss to surface leather, corners bumped and rubbed. Split to head of lower joint of volume one, volume two rebacked with some lifting of original back strip, volume three recased with new plain endpapers stuck over the top of the original marbled endpapers. Internally the frontispiece and title of volume one are foxed, titles of other volumes also lightly foxed, with some sporadic light foxing to text, but generally fairly clean. Volume one with a portrait frontispiece, double page map of Hertfordshire and seven tinted plates; volume two with eight tinted plates; and volume three with five tinted and two untinted plates (for a total of twenty-two plates as called for). A decent working set of one of the standard county histories of Hertfordshire. First Edition. Hardback. Good. Folio.
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- Zetetic Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003806
- Title
- History of Hertfordshire, Containing an Account of the Descents of the Various Manors; Pedigrees of Families Connected with the County; Antiquities, Local Customs &c. &c.
- Author
- Cussans, John Edwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus and Stephen Austin & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London and Hertford
- Date Published
- 1870
- Size
- Folio
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Hertford, Hertfordshire, Cussans, Topography, County Histories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nineteenth Century; Topography;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Foxed
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- Morocco
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- Rebacked
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- First Edition
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- Folio
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