Coventry Guide
by Reader, W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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dartmouth, Devon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Coventry: Rollason and Reader No date but someone has written 1810 in pencil on fep. Marbled boards with brown leather binding. The leather above the very top band has come loose from the rear hinge and on the band (still attached to front hinge). There is heavy rubbing to corners, edges, raised bands and hinges and to faces of boards, page edges darkened, very light spotting to frontispiece and some foxing to title page. generally text is very good - tight and clean (bar very slight foxing here and there) with b&w illustrations. A lovely little book. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Presumed First Edition.. Half-Leather. Good+/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Compass Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014893
- Title
- Coventry Guide
- Author
- Reader, W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition.
- Publisher
- Rollason and Reader
- Place of Publication
- Coventry
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Topography;
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