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Old English Homes; a Summer's Sketch Books
by Thompson, Stephen
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, 1876. First Edition. Small Quarto. viii, 215 pages. Thompson shows great Medieval homes and interiors including Penhurst, Knole, Hever Castle and Stoke Poges Church. A beautiful copy with extraordinarily bright publisher's green gilt decorated cloth and all twenty-three hand-mounted albumen photographs all in fine condition, lacking the fading endemic to some copies nor is there the foxing that sometimes occurs, however, it had been recased and new endpapers with a bit of wear and touch up to spine ends otherwise a very handsome copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014146
- Title
- Old English Homes; a Summer's Sketch Books
- Author
- Thompson, Stephen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Photography Homes Albumen English Penhurst Hever Castle Stoke Poges Church
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
Terms of Sale
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- New
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- Spine
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