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The Story of Greenwich
by Aslet, Clive
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0674000765
- ISBN 13
- 9780674000766
- Seller
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About This Item
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Harvard Univ Press, 1999. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First U. S. Printing. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket in Mylar cover. Fine green cloth binding with sharp and bright gilt titles, very clean and unmarked, tight and solid sewn binding, square with sharp corners. Internals As New-appear unread. Lavishly and beautifully illustrated throughout with full color plates and monochrome illustrations. All pages are coated paper. Endpapers: Stanford's "Map of London", 1886. Half Title Page: Allegory of Britannia with Greenwich and the Railway Behind, c. 1840. Title Page: Two-page "View of Greenwish Hospital, 1788, watercolour by Edward Dayes. Overleaf: Greenwich Hospital from the River, c.1748. by Samuel Wale. This is the story of Greenwich: "The whole civilised world has heard of Greenwich. The very boot-blacks in the basement of Charing Cross know something of it. See?" from "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad, 1907. 288 pages with Further Reading Suggestions, Principal Sources, Illustration Sources and Credits, and Index. 8 x 9.8 inches. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999.
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019840
- Title
- The Story of Greenwich
- Author
- Aslet, Clive
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0674000765
- ISBN 13
- 9780674000766
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Keywords
- ASTRONOMY; ASTRONOMERS ROYAL; BLACKHEATH; CHARLES I; II; CIVIL WAR, ENGLAND;CROOMS HILL; EVELYN, JOHN; ELIZABETH GEORGE IV; GREENWICH PALACE; PARK; HENRY VIII; JONES, INIGO; PEPYS, SAMUEL; MOORE, SIR JONAS; ROYAL OBSERVATORY; SEAMAN'S HOSPITAL; RIVER
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Great Britain;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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