London before the Conquest. [First and Sole Edition]. LONDON BETWEEN ROMANS AND NORMANS
by LETHABY W.R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan,, 1902. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map, very numerous illustrations (3 full-page) and 2 full-page maps in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; red buckram gilt, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned as often else a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement bound in at end. The first authoritative treatment of the topography of the capital between the Romans and the Conquest.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32965
- Title
- London before the Conquest. [First and Sole Edition]. LONDON BETWEEN ROMANS AND NORMANS
- Author
- LETHABY W.R
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan,
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- topography, london, archaeology, roman london, lethaby
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- Gilt
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- Buckram
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