The History of Signboards
by Hotten, John Camden
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/no DJ
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London:: Chatto & Windus,, 1884. Ninth edition. Cloth. Very Good/no DJ. Gilt lettering and illustration to spine and upper cover. With 100 facsimile bw illustrations demonstrating principles described, and colour frontispiece. Top page edges deckled. Ffeps a little torn and binding a little unstable. Spine sunned and bumped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Primrose Hill Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17288
- Title
- The History of Signboards
- Author
- Hotten, John Camden
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/no DJ
- Edition
- Ninth edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1884
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arts: Applied;
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