Short Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax
by Fairfax, Thomas Lord
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London, England: Printed for Ri. Chiswell, 1699. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. British First. Bound in medium brown boards with darker brown calf of the period on the spine and at corners; title is in gold on a red spine label; gold lines for decoration at both sides of spine and at corners; text block is solid and clean with very little foxing; 11 pages devoted to epistle dedicatory, 128 pages of text, 4 page epitaph by the Duke of Buckingham, and 12 pages constituting a book catalogue; collectible condition; multiple photographs available upon request; a frontispiece of Lord Fairfax is missing..
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006404
- Title
- Short Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax
- Author
- Fairfax, Thomas Lord
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- British First
- Publisher
- Printed for Ri. Chiswell
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1699
- Keywords
- Great Britain - History
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