Young Folk's History of England: From the Conquest by Julius Caesar to the Present Time with One Hundred Illustrations
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Jersey City, N.J.: Barr-Dinwiddie Co, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. 181 p.: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 25 cm. Red cloth spine with chromolithographed illustrated paper over boards. Illustration on front board includes Queen Victoria. Title vignette of the Tower Bridge. No date of publication. Imprint on the front board is McCarthy & Company, New York. McCarthy & Co. appears to have only been in business in 1892 indicating that they must have purchased the pages from Barr-Dinwiddie Co. and issued it with their own cover. Gift inscription to Bessie Zelda Miller on back free endpaper dated Dec. 30, 1899. With: the 16 6-x-8.5-inch sheets with drawings, dated 1894-1900, which Bessie Miller kept in the book. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: corners are rubbed; lower right-hand corner of front board scraped; front hinge weak; pages lightly browned; clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004190
- Title
- Young Folk's History of England: From the Conquest by Julius Caesar to the Present Time with One Hundred Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Barr-Dinwiddie Co
- Place of Publication
- Jersey City, N.J.
- Date Published
- 1892
- Bookseller catalogs
- European History;
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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