ANCIENT STONE CROSSES OF ENGLAND.
by RIMMER, Alfred, 1829-1893 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Virtue & Co., 1875. First edition : the later issue with the "Virtue & Co." imprint. A charmingly illustrated guide to the town-crosses, market-crosses, Eleanor crosses, roadside crosses, etc. to be found all across England. Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,(160)pp. Seventy-two wood-engraved illustrations. Original pictorial cloth gilt; just a hint of wear; slight nick and faint crease to front endpaper, but a very good, sound and bright copy. With the contemporary blind-stamp of the distinguished bookseller and publisher, Charles Elkin Mathews (1851-1921), then at his first business address - the antiquarian and general bookshop by the cathedral in Exeter which he opened in 1884.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35933
- Title
- ANCIENT STONE CROSSES OF ENGLAND.
- Author
- RIMMER, Alfred, 1829-1893 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Virtue & Co., 1875.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Travel, Topography, England
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Ash Rare Books
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