Curiosities of London : Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis by Timbs, John - 1876

Paperback / softback. New.

London: John Camden Hotten, no date [c. 1868]. Later edition, corrected and enlarged (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 16cm), viii, 871pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Some chafing of the joints, inner hinges cracked (and repaired), preliminary page foxed. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1868. Thick hardcover with no jacket. "Yours faithfully, John Timbs" inked below portrait on frontispiece - possibly a facsimile. Boards lightly scored in places with one or two small stains and a larger instance in middle of front. Leading corners very frayed and worn. Minor wear on edges. Spine is faded, with superficial creases down length and bumps and wear on head and foot. Page block yellowed and uneven. Binding has been reinforced at front and back, with adhesive strips visible. Small sticker on front pastedown; penned writing on FEP. Binding visible on next few pages as well as some near middle within; slightly detached at top through abstract and preface pages, with evidence of tape. Frontispiece and protective tissue foxed. First few pages of the main body are damaged at leading edge but no text obscured. Pages are generally clean and tight for age, with pencil marginalia in around 5% of whole, a few stains and dog-eared corners, and light… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

David Bogue, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Good, clean, tight and sound copy. Usual browning to page edges. Original cloth covered boards with a modern spine in binder's plain brown buckram, gilt lettered. New endpapers. viii + 800 pages, portrait frontispiece, indexed. Approx. size 7" by 5".  Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26912. .

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Virtue & Co. Limited, 1867. Leather. Good Only. 9.5" by 6.5". None. A new, corrected and enlarged edition of this exciting work on the curiosities of London, complete with illustrations. Dated from King's College London Libraries & Collections. New edition, corrected and enlarged. Illustrated with frontispiece, vignette, and five plates of steel engravings. Collated complete. A collection of information on the most rare and remarkable objects of interest found in London, with nearly sixty years' worth of personal recollections. From Alchemists and Bankside, to York House and the Zoological Society. Collected by John Timbs, an English author and antiquary. Bound in half calf with cloth boards. Externally sound with bumping and rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spine. Front board detached. Rear joints starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd spot. Good Only