SHADOWS OF THE OLD BOOKSELLERS
by CHARLES KNIGHT
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON : BELL AND DALDY, 1865 Publisher's Brown cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 205 x 135 mm approx. xvi + 320 pp. First Edition 1965. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Book- restoration work. The book has been re-backed by us. Spine cleaned off -re-glued with p.v.a.new paper liner and mull and re cased with new plain end papers and best match cloth with remnants of original laid on to produce a book which will give many more years of service. NB No half title.Original owner name and date in ink to top margin of title, subsequent ownership- South West Essex Technical College and School of Art reserve copy with it's book plate re laid to front paste down and random ink stamps of same ownership).
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131595
- Title
- SHADOWS OF THE OLD BOOKSELLERS
- Author
- CHARLES KNIGHT
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- BELL AND DALDY
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- Shadows of the old Booksellers, Charles Knight, Thomas Guy, John Dunton, The Chapter Coffee House, John Murray, John Rivington, Thomas Longman,
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Re-backed
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- Half Title
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