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London: Constable, Printed by R & R Clark, Edinburgh. 1922 — First Edition, First Printing. Large 8vo - 23cm. Quarter course tan linen on blue-gray papered boards, all edges uncut, blue-gray endpapers. A complete 2-volume set in its original publisher's First Printing state in Very Good condition with strong hinges, soiling to paper covered boards, clean internally with some intermittent foxing, no folds or tears; slight wear and fading to extremities of board covers; some small dark spotting of read boards, linen spines with some wear at extremities and with original paper spine labels, publisher's extras spine labels tipped in each volume; all tissue guards, plates and panoramic fold-outs in place. — Rosove 71.A1. Very Scarce.Volume I: pp. lxiv, 300, 4; 30 plate leave including color front-piece with tissue guard, 2 folding panoramas, and 27 plate leaves (3 color; 36 sketch, paintings, and photographs), and 4 maps [3 folding]; Appendix.
Volume II: pp. viii, 301-585, (1), 28 plate leaves… Read More
