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PAVED WITH GOLD or The Romance And Reality Of The London Streets
by Augustus Mayhew
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
Item Price
NZ$908.65NZ$726.92
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London- UK: Chapman & Hall, 1858. PAVED WITH GOLD or The Romance And Reality Of The London Streets- by Augustus Mayhew- Illustrated by Phiz (H. K. Browne)- Chapman and Hall- London- UK- 1858- 1st edition-1st Printing- Hardcover: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall- VG/ no dj as issued- Brown blindstamped cloth with gilt titles and illustration on spine. Corners slightly bumped and light rubbing to extremities- binding is clean, square and tight. Binding by Bone & Son, Fleet Street London-UK- original binding- indicated on back inner cover- viii-408pp are clean, no tears or writing- armorial bookplate of Blackburne on inner cover endpaper. A notation in pencil by this previous owner (long time ago) that the books has sold as high as $55 in previous auctions)- light foxing on some pages, but very minimal. A nice clean copy of this difficult book. All plates by Phiz are present- See our Photos- Divided into three parts, this is a tale of London life in the mid-Victorian era.- Scarce- Fiction-Adventure-Victorian-Illustrated (3943). 1st Edition-1st Printing. Cloth. VG/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by H. K. Browne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- jakoll
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3943
- Title
- PAVED WITH GOLD or The Romance And Reality Of The London Streets
- Author
- Augustus Mayhew
- Illustrator
- H. K. Browne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- 1st Edition-1st Printing
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London- UK
- Date Published
- 1858
- Keywords
- Fiction-Adventure-Victorian-Illustrated
Terms of Sale
jakoll
Payment must be received within 7 working days. Payments by cheque will be held 10 working days to clear. Full refund of purchase price only if item has been misdescribed as pertains to condition. Mailing costs non-refundable. Item must be returned in the same condition as it was originally sent out for refund conditions to apply.
About the Seller
jakoll
Biblio member since 2007
Mansonville, Quebec
About jakoll
We specialize in Modern 1st Edition, Children's books, Vintage classics, vinyl records, original movie posters, sports cards, comics, postage stamps and coins.We only sell online at this time and have been doing so for over 30 years.
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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