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London Chapman & Hall, 1906-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Octavo. Original red pictorial cloth. Fading and staining to boards, minor warping. Shaken, foxing. Marginal dampstaining. A working copy.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1906. Hardcover. Good. London: Chapman & Hall, 1906. 9 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. 472. Black lettering and illustrations to spine and front of red cloth covered boards. 80 black and white illustrations including color frontispiece, Last Journey of the Horsed Parcel Mail, by Harry Payne. With index. Moderate scuffing, soiling and wear to boards. Sunning to spine, all corners bumped, spine caps gently folded under and creased. Previous owner's ex-libris book plate to front paste-down endpaper. Some mild foxing. Untrimmed edges. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Illustrated by author from Old - Time Prints and Pictures. The uses and needs of the countries changing highways in a changing era. Chapters include The Sutton and Reigate Route and The Bolney and Hickstead Route.

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London: Chapman & Hall, 1906. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". Charles G. Harper. A first edition of this illustrated work on the road to Brighton. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, forty-nine black-and-white plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. An illustrative work on the road to Brighton and the routes of the surrounding area. With specific reference to the Sutton and Reigate route and the Bolney and Hickstead route. Written by Charles George Harper, an English author and illustrator who wrote self-illustrated travel books exploring the regions, roads, coastlines, literary connections, and old inns of Britain. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities, Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the front joint. Internally, firmly bound with light scattered spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages. Good

Chapman & Hall, 1906. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, red cloth lettered black, pictorial design blocked to the upper board, corners knocked at tips, a short closed tear at the head of the spine, the text is free of marking, colour frontis, b&w illustrations, xvi + 472pp.

Chapman & Hall, 1906. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, red cloth lettered black, pictorial design blocked to the upper board, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed, a very good tightly bound copy, foxing to the endpapers and lightly to parts of the text, bookplate of a previous owner on the front pastedown, the remainder of the text is free of markings, tissue guarded colour frontis, b&w illustrations, xvi + 472pp.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1892.. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 472 pp. Coloured frontispiece and 49 black and white plates plus illustrations in the text, two inscriptions to the title page, one crossed through. Original cloth, t.e.g., spine sunned.