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When London Burned

When London Burned

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When London Burned: A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire

by G.A. Henty

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HENTY, G[eorge] A[lfred]. When London Burned. A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire. With Twelve Page Illustrations by J[oseph] Finnemore. London: Blackie and Son, 1895. 12mo, 388pp + 32 advts. Blue boards pictorially stamped in gilt, orange, black and white; all edges burnished olive green. Gray endpapers; 12 half-tone plates. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, a few pages very slightly foxed at edges, else a clean, tight copy.

First edition. Henty's tale of a young English teen living through the Plague, the Great London fire and the on-again-off-again war with the Dutch. The late-nineteenth century pictorial binding is especially eye-catching.

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Bookseller
Books of Wonder US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
1049357
Title
When London Burned
Author
G.A. Henty
Illustrator
J. Finnemore
Format/Binding
Blue boards pictorially stamped in gilt, orange, black and white
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Blackie & Son
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1895
Weight
0.00 lbs
Size
12mo

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12mo
A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Foxed
Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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...

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