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Loidus & Elmete. Thomas Whitaker.
by Thomas Dunham Whitaker LLD
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Brown calf spine with brown cloth boards. Black title plate with gilt lettering and banding on the spine.
Loidis and Elmete; or, an Attempt To Illustrate the Districts Described in Those Words by Bede; and Supposed To Embrace the Lower Portions of Airedale and Wharfdale, together with the Entire Vale of Calder, in the County of York, England. 404 pages plus 2 pages of directions to the binder and plates. In one volume. Width: 11.5" Height: 17.5". Bound in full contemporary leather with raised bands and stamped gilt lettering to spine panels. Binding is firm and text solid, with reinforced hinges. Marbled endpapers and edges. Very occasional (light) foxing. This lavishly illustrated work contains an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, title vignette, as well as many additional plates, textual illustrations and decorative initial letters. Book also presents a number of double-page and fold-out family trees.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Martin Frost
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB820 /5C
- Title
- Loidus & Elmete. Thomas Whitaker.
- Author
- Thomas Dunham Whitaker LLD
- Format/Binding
- Leather spine with cloth boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1816
- Size
- 30 x45 x7cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Martin Frost
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Martin Frost
Biblio member since 2024
Scarborough , North Yorkshire
About Martin Frost
Rare and antique books
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- Spine
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