The Life of Christ. With original Illustrations. HANDSOME COPY IN PERIOD BINDING
by FARRAR F.W
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cassell Petter & Galpin,, n.d. [c.1890]. 4to., with a coloured map as frontispiece and very numerous fine wood-engraved illustrations in the text; attractively bound in contemporary half roan, black pebble-grain cloth boards gilt, back with eight flat double-rule second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with floral spray, red sprinkled edges, green endpapers, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a handsome copy. With the nineteenth century trade ticket of Cockayne of Walworth Road, London on front paste-down. This profusely illustrated issue, variously dated between 1881 and 1890, is the best of the late nineteenth editions of Farrar's classic biographical account. A handsome copy in neatly restored period binding, ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16153
- Title
- The Life of Christ. With original Illustrations. HANDSOME COPY IN PERIOD BINDING
- Author
- FARRAR F.W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell Petter & Galpin,
- Date Published
- n.d. [c.1890]
- Keywords
- theology, farrar, christ, f.w. farrar, theology, life, christ
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