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Chatto & Windus, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 1908. No Edition Remarks. 268 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Chatto & Windus, 1908. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1908. 268 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing.Hinges and guttering are cracked. Binding is loose. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Musson, Toronto, 1908., 1908. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First Canadian edition. 378 pp., many color plates, small, thick 4to, teg, blue cloth with gilt decorations. VG- copy with hinges repaired. Cloth and gilt is bright but worn at extremities.

Dodd, Mead & Co, 1908T. hardcover. Good. . Decorative purple cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Loose/torn hinges. Pages tanned with a bit of minor foxing.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.. Very good copy. 1908. 1st. hardcover. Tall 8vo, 378 pp., Mildly ex-library. .

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good. 1908. Hardcover. London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. "Illustrations in colour after Warwick Goble", 268pp., rear hinge cracked, light foxing, green cloth boards with gilt stamping shoe some staining, bumped edges. A Good copy, no DJ. .

Chatto & Windus, 1908T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. On green cloth ilustrated by warwick goble with dedication to end paer

Chatto & Windus, 1908-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 4.8223 cent in x 23.0964 cent in x 17.2589 cent in. 1908 first edition on illustrated ghreen cloth

London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Warwick Goble. First edition first printing Quarto hardback Pictorial gilt green cloth xvi + 268 pages 60 colour plates Very Good condition No inscriptions

Toronto: The Musson Book Co., Limited, 1908 Book. Illus. by After Warwick Goble. Good Plus. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original dark blue blindstamped cloth lettered in gold on boards. Fifty-nine colour plates after Warwick Goble. Top edges gilt. Three plates re-inserted. The heart-rending story of the destruction of the abbeys in 1535-1536 by Henry VIII's Bill of Suppression, carried out by Thomas Cromwell. Students of history, religion, and architecture alike will profit from a serious study of this book. Previous owner's name. 378 pp..

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Chatto & Widus. Good. 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Small 4to Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling and illustration. Name and date on ffep. Some foxing. Tissue guarded colour frontis plate. Colour plates.xvj, 268 pages. Excerpt from The Greater Abbeys of England: Thomas Crumwell was Henry's vicar-general in Spirituals, and acting in this capacity he projected a royal visitation of all religious houses in the autumn of 1535. The subordinates chosen by the vicar-general for the work were worthy instruments of their master and their letters prove them to have been utterly unscrupulous and entirely reckless in their accusations. At the same time preachers were sent over the country to prepare the popular mind for the contemplated seizure of monastic property. These emissaries of Crumwell were instructed to orate against the monks as hypocrites, sorcerers and idle drones, etc.; to tell the people that the monks made the land unprofitable and that if the abbeys went… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in publisher's green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No dust-jacket.Illustrated with coloured plates by Warwick Goble.This copy has one previous owner's name to the ffep and there is one presentation stamp in blind to the Title Page.There is a little rubbing to the outer edges of the boards.8vo 268pp First Edition 1st Impression . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1908.

Hardback. New.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. Boards have minor wear including rubbing and bumping. Shaken and slightly sprung, lacks fep. Some mild foxing and spotting to PP, CE uncut. Else clean and tidy.. Cloth Boards. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Published by Chatto & Windus, 1908. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Goble, Warwick. Very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Green cloth covers. Gilt decorative and text. A fascinating insight into the English monastic life exquisitely illustrated in colour. Top edge gilt. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to spine, with a couple of chips to cloth at top. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some foxing. A few page edges have tears, with a bit of loss, where at one time pages were uncut and they have not been cut neatly.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful decorated binding in purple cloth covers with gilt spine and title lettering and embossed lowers and decorations to the front. "With illustraions in color after Warwick Goble." The author, Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846 - 1929), was an English Benedictine monk and scholar and uniquely qualified to write this history. A very pretty copy with minimal wear with the exception of a few smudges to the preliminaries, slight darkening to spine and a tiny dent to spine. No interior or exterior markings. In my opinion, the Dodd, Mead New York edition is prettier than the Chatto & Windus London edition. Please inquire if you would like more information about this book.; Color Illustrations; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 378 pages .

-Chatto & Windus (1908)-. First edition first impression 1908.xvi+268 pages +4 page catalogue to rear. Illustrated in colour after Warwick Goble. Decorated cloth. Medium foxing mainly to page edges (none to illustrated pages). Fore & tail-edges untrimmed. Decorated green cloth gilt. Very good. The Greater Abbeys of England

London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Original full green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Previous owner's bookplate behind the front cover. Binding shaken with the start of splitting at the joint behind the front cover. Endpapers slightly foxed. Full color frontispiece and other full page plates throught. Overall in GOOD condition.. Full Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

London,, 1908. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Slight rubbing at extremities with slight foxing to preliminaries, otherwise very good+. Decent copy. . Globe, Warwick. Small 4to. pp xvi, 268. Original publisher's green cloth, illustrated and lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. 60 attractive colour illustrations by Warwick Goble.