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WENCESLAUS HOLLAR AND HIS VIEWS OF LONDON AND WINDSOR IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
by Hind, Arthur M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth. Gilt title on spine. Pictorial frontispiece. Numerous engraved illustration at rear of text. Included a hand written letter from Mr. W. A. Cadbury to the author. Mr. Cadbury donated a splendid collection of early books & atlases to the Birmingham Library. Some of the plates in this book came from his collection. A few lightly foxed pages. Dust Jacket has mended tears by folds and a small piece missing from spine head. England ; Engraved illustrations.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 92 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14081
- Title
- WENCESLAUS HOLLAR AND HIS VIEWS OF LONDON AND WINDSOR IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- Author
- Hind, Arthur M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Lane the Bodley Head Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- England
- Bookseller catalogs
- England;
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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