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British Museum, 1904. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2000grams, ISBN:

Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1904. Hardcover. Good. London, 1904; black cloth covered boards; corners and spine edges bumped and rubbed with board exposed; edges and covers scuffed; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; Previous owner's name on front end papers; tide mark at top corners; pencil notations on interior pages; 443 pages.

Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. Hardcover. Good. London, 1904; VOLUME III ONLY; black cloth covered boards; corners and spine edges bumped and rubbed with board exposed; edges and covers scuffed; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; Previous owner's name on front end papers; pencil notations on interior pages; 387 pages.

London: Printed by order of the Trustees, British Museum, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Volume 3 only: 387 p. 26 cm. 6 b&w plates.Black cloth hardcover with blank impressing. Top corners bumped, spine ends a little softened. Neat and clean.

British Museum. 1903-04. First Edition, large 8vo, 3 vols., x, [ii], 458; [iv], 443; [vi], 387pp., frontis., 18 plates, orig. cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slight sign of label having been removed from base of spines otherwise a very nice set. The largest and most comprehensive collection ever formed.

Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition, 1903-04. 3 vols, cloth, 8vo,. x, [ii],458; [ii],443; [iv], 387 pp, 18 plates. The most important reference for bookplates up to the 19th century. The collection comprises over 35,000 bookplates. An ex-library set which would benefit cosmetically from rebinding, although the current bindings are sound and firm. With partly removed labels on the spines, labels on the front endpapers and small library stamps to the title-pages, the versos of the plates, and a few margins. Covers rubbed, the top 2.5 inches of the front joint of Volume 2 and the top half of the front joint of Vol 3 are split, the head and tail of the spine of Volume 2 are worn with some loss. Title-pages and endpapers browned and some staining to endpapers , contents otherwise Good.

London: Printed By Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1904. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bookplate of V.M. Turnbull inside front board suggests this copy may have belonged to the owner of the famous collection now held by the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. Bookplate of Hugh John McLean upon front free endpaper. [6], 387 pages. All six plates present. "Includes several minor and supplementary series, viz., one of about two hundred anonymous plates which it has not been found possible to identify; Royal plates; plates of Universities, Colleges and Schools; Premium or school-prize plates; plates of Ecclesiastical, Parochial, and Public Libraries; Naval and Military and Legal and Medical plates; with those of City Companies and Public Offices, Booksellers, and Circulating Libraries. The volume also furnishes notes of a few family plates supplementary to the main series: these have for the most part been discovered in and… Read More

London: Printed By Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1904. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bookplate of V.M. Turnbull inside front board suggests this copy may have belonged to the owner of the famous collection now held by the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. Bookplate of Hugh John McLean upon front free endpaper. [4], 443 pages. All six plates present. The entire catalogued Franks bequest contained 35,098 plates. Above-average wear to publisher's black cloth. Innumerable small light pencil marginal tick marks beside items of interest. Narrow opening in binding at page 259. Volume II only of this renowned three volume reference..