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Variety; Consisting Of Anecdotes, Curious Facts And Interesting Narratives.
by WAKEFIELD, PRISCILLA:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Harvey and Darton, 1830 1st. Hardback, size approx 7.4 x 4.5 inches. Blue cloth with blind paneled decoration to boards, banding and gilt lettering to spine. Pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Some fading to spine, minor rubbing and small nicks to corners of cloth. Else cover clean and smart. Frontis plate darkened around edges with a couple of faint stains, Title page darkened, and inscribed on top corner “Thomas Barnard 1839.” Plates with some darkening to edges, and some minor foxing spots. One or two minor foxing spots to a couple of pages, else pages all very clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 276pp + 4pp adverts. Illustrated with 5 B&W engraved plates, each with 2 illustrations. “A miscellaneous collection of entertainment.” Contents include: Advantages of a Useful Life, surnames, Anger, Mungo Park, Fortune, Domestics, Slave-Trade, Maria Antoinetta, Gipsies, Success, Fire, Sabbath, Character, Virtue, Genius, Dismal Swamp, Grotto of Antiparos,
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87253
- Title
- Variety; Consisting Of Anecdotes, Curious Facts And Interesting Narratives.
- Author
- WAKEFIELD, PRISCILLA:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Harvey and Darton, 1830 1st
- Keywords
- HISTORY Variety, Consisting Of Anecdotes, Curious Facts And Interesting Narratives, WAKEFIELD, PRISCILLA, Harvey and Darton, 1830, 1st, Illustrated, engraved plates,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
Biblio member since 2016
Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
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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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
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- Inscribed
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- Plate
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