Buy this book on-line William Gray Fearnside; Thomas Harrel : The Great Metropolis: or, Views and History of London in the Nineteenth Century: being a Grand Nationa Exhibition of the British Capital. With Historical and Topographical Notices of each Place. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, Esq., and Thomas Harrel. Illustrated with Splendid Steel EngravingsD. Omer Smith, London, c. 1862.
Full publisher’s decorative gilt morocco, gilt arabesque title within embossed floral motifs, encased within a finely gilt-tooled border, all within a double blind frame, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt-tooled motifs within blind and gilt borders, gilt red morocco label on two, gilt text on six, board edges and inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. , Aside from lacking the frontispiece and three misplaced leaves (indicated in the pagination, no loss), this is a fine copy of this work on Victorian London, plates are clean and crisp, bound in decorative gilt full contemporary morocco. , 8vo., P. (4), blank, frontis, engr. title, blank, title, blank, 1-78, 89-90, 81-88, 105-106, 91-104, 79-80, 107-219, blank, index, list of plates, (2)., Extra-illustrated with 40 (of 34) steel-engraved plates; however, this copy lacks the frontispiece plate called for in the list of plates. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of William Gray Fearnside; Thomas Harrel : The Great Metropolis: or, Views and History of London in the Nineteenth Century: being a Grand Nationa Exhibition of the British Capital. With Historical and Topographical Notices of each Place. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, Esq., and Thomas Harrel. Illustrated with Splendid Steel Engravings. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustres, rare books, out-of-print books, atlases and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |