London Under Elizabeth: a Survey (A Survey of London)
by John Stow
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Harleston, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Routledge & Son, 1893. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 524 8vo. Edited by Henry Morley; first edition thus. Title to front free end paper: "Stow's Survey of London". Title to half-title: "London Under Elizabeth: a Survey by John Stow". Title to title page: "A Survay of London Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Description of that Citie, Written in the year 1598". In Routledge's Books for the People series. Re-backed retaining orginal spine strip and cloth. Red-brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 446 pages, three pages of publisher's catalogue preceding title page and one leaf of publisher's catalogue (Morely's Universal Library) to rear. Condition notes: Boards rubbed and bumped, edges of text block ragged and soiled, pages unmarked, binding firm.
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- Bookseller
- Duck Cottage Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6524
- Title
- London Under Elizabeth: a Survey (A Survey of London)
- Author
- John Stow
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- Survey of London, Survay of London
- Bookseller catalogs
- History and Biography;
- Size
- 524 8vo
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Duck Cottage Books
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Harleston, Norfolk
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Re-backed
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- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
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