Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral
by Jocelyn Perkins and John S. Bumpus
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G+/N/a
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., 1923. In the Treasure House series, combined edition Westminster (by Perkins) and St. Paul's (Bumpus). Blue covers with darker blue decoration and lettering to spine and front board, with cloister vignette laid in to front board, 306pp inc index plus adverts. B/w illustrations from original drawings by Conway and photographs with frontis of Westminster Abbey from Parliament Square. Dusty page edges, corner creasing to pp165-170, spine edges and other extremities mildly rubbed and head and foot of spine a little bumped. Spine sunned and endpapers foxed, but overall a very solid copy. Ref:082179. Second Edition. Cloth. G+/N/a. Illus. by L. Russell Conway. 13x19cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002179
- Title
- Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral
- Author
- Jocelyn Perkins and John S. Bumpus
- Illustrator
- L. Russell Conway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+
- Jacket Condition
- N/a
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Wells Gardner, Darton and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- Foxed
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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