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The Signboards of Old London Shops: A Review of Shop Signs employed by the London Tradesmen during the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries. Complied from the author's collection of contemporary trade-cards and billheads.
by Heal, Sir Ambrose
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
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About This Item
London: R.T. Batsford, Ltd.. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1947. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Limited edition, one of only 250 copies printed on large paper and bound in half crimson morocco. Publisher's red half-morocco over red silk boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge red. Profusely illustrated with five B&W full-page plates and over 400 collotype reproductions of sign-boards. . Spine mildly sunned, else fine; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. . Collotype Reproductions. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 220 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29594
- Title
- The Signboards of Old London Shops: A Review of Shop Signs employed by the London Tradesmen during the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries. Complied from the author's collection of contemporary trade-cards and billheads.
- Author
- Heal, Sir Ambrose
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Limited Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- R.T. Batsford, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- History, London, Shop Signs, Commercial Signage, Sign-Boards, English Commercial History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business, Law & Government;
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- Gilt
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