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London: John Camden Hotten, no date [c. 1868]. Later edition, corrected and enlarged (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 16cm), viii, 871pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Some chafing of the joints, inner hinges cracked (and repaired), preliminary page foxed. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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J. S. Virtue & Co London, 1867, New Edition, revised and enlarged,. Good. 1867. Hardcover. hardback, large 8vo, viii,871pp, engraved half-title but no frontispiec, 2 plates, several plans, slight foxing, text clean and tight, marbled boards and half-lether binding, worn, several tears to spine ends and edges; overall Good condition .

London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1868. Thick hardcover with no jacket. "Yours faithfully, John Timbs" inked below portrait on frontispiece - possibly a facsimile. Boards lightly scored in places with one or two small stains and a larger instance in middle of front. Leading corners very frayed and worn. Minor wear on edges. Spine is faded, with superficial creases down length and bumps and wear on head and foot. Page block yellowed and uneven. Binding has been reinforced at front and back, with adhesive strips visible. Small sticker on front pastedown; penned writing on FEP. Binding visible on next few pages as well as some near middle within; slightly detached at top through abstract and preface pages, with evidence of tape. Frontispiece and protective tissue foxed. First few pages of the main body are damaged at leading edge but no text obscured. Pages are generally clean and tight for age, with pencil marginalia in around 5% of whole, a few stains and dog-eared corners, and light… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

David Bogue, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Good, clean, tight and sound copy. Usual browning to page edges. Original cloth covered boards with a modern spine in binder's plain brown buckram, gilt lettered. New endpapers. viii + 800 pages, portrait frontispiece, indexed. Approx. size 7" by 5".  Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26912. .

Hardback. New.

London: Wingate, 1111. Book. Good. Hardcover. New Edition Corrected and Enlarged. With Index. Top edge gilt in good condition. Spine appears repaired at lower part. Some foxing on title page and free endpapers. General wear to cover surface and extremities. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Virtue & Co., London: (1867)., 1867 pp. vii, 871 + Engraved half title and Six full page steel engraved plates. Marbled end papers. All edges marbled. 4to. Half leather over marbled boards. Raised bands on spine. Original leather spine label. Extremities rubbed and worn. Front board detached. A possible candidate for binding restoration. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BX 6 Language: eng. Half Leather - Hardcover. Good.

London: Virtue and Co. Preface dated 1867. Gutters/hinges heavily cracked and therefore boards partially detached, particularly rear. Leather scuffed to edges and corners, however, text block in very good order - sturdy, clean and tidy.. Half - Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 4to.

London : D. Bogue, 1867. New Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Some minor scattered foxing throughout. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series; Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890. Physical description; vii, 871 pages : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations. Notes; Alphabetically arranged. Subjects; London (England) ; Guidebooks. England London. London (England) Description and travel ; Guidebooks London (England) Description Guidebooks.

Longmans, Green a.o. London. 1868. New edition, corrected and enlarged. . pp. vii, (i), 871, (i) blank, 24 Catalogue. Portrait frontispiece. New cloth, uncut, faint vertical crease in the first few leaves, the portrait foxed and stained in the fore-edge margin, otherwise a nice, clean copy.

Published by J.S. Virtue & Co, London, nd, new, corrected and enlarged edition. [1867 from text reference]. Red quarter leather binding with red cloth boards. Gilt lettering to spine, gilt crests to front board, no dustwrapper. 9.5ins x 6.5ins, vii, (i), 871pp plus frontis portrait, 15pp plates and additional engraved title page. Occasional light foxing. Tiny piece lacking from base of spine. G+ nr VG.

London: David Bogue, 1855. Cloth. Good. 7" by 4.5". None. An interesting collection of remarkable sights around London. With portrait frontispiece. A detailed collection of curious and remarkable sights and spots around the city of London, from the Adelphi and the Botanical Gardens, to stained glass windows and Zoological Gardens. Written by John Timbs, an English antiquary and author. In the original full brown cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Front joint starting but firm with minor loss of the cloth. Front hinge tender but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd handling mark and ink annotations. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Good

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. Curiosities of London: exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis; with nearly sixty years' personal recollections" by John Timbs. New edition, corrected and enlarged. Ex-library with library bookplate on front paste-down and number notations on rear endsheets, title, and copyright pages. Published by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London, 1868. Illustrated. The book measures 5.5" x 8.75", 871 pages including Index. Half bound black morocco over stone marbled boards. Speckled edges. The book is in very good antiquarian condition. Wear and cracking to the leather with chips missing at the spine. The leather has been treated with a consolidant and conditioner by a professional bookbinder to restore and preserve it for years to come. The textblock is gently toned, largely clean, and complete. The binding is sound. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868. New Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Good/None. Charts and maps. Thick 8vo, red Morocco with five hubs and elaborate gilt decorations on spine and double-rule border on cover, illustrated with a few diagrams and maps, marbled endpapers and page-edges, vii, [viii] + 871 pages. 3 lbs 2 oz. Fascinating collection of remarkable details found in mid-Victorian London . . . extending back for 19 centuries. An Excellent reference for Dickensians and lovers of London, Dickens and novelists, Sherlockians, and those fond of curiosa,. Arranged alphabetically by subject. First Edition appeared in 1855. Solid copy with moderate wear to leather; slight weakening to gutters/hinges though they're holding quite well; uniform lmoderate age-toning to pages; the occasional speck or stain. Bookplate award for "Class I, 3rd Prize) on front pastedown.

London: Virtue & Co, 1867. New Edition. Quarter Leather. Very good. New Edition, corrected and enlarged, of Curiosities of London by John Timbs, published around 1867.. Thick octavo, vii, [3], 871pp. Three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, title in gilt over black label. Marbled endpapers, marbled leaf ends. Rear hinge starting, but stable. Small bookseller's label on front endpaper. Text block solid, clean. Complete with frontispiece and vignette title page, and 5 full-page steel engravings. Publication date from preface statement by the author, dated December, 1867. First published in 1855.

London : David Bogue, 1855. First edition. The final realisation of an idea first hatched in 1828 - an encyclopaedic dictionary of London - from the Adelphi to the Zoological Gardens - mixing the "entertaining and anecdotic" with "social statistics and other Great Facts". Compiled by John Timbs F.S.A., author, journalist and antiquary. As "agreeable a book as you could wish to meet with. There is so much out-of-the-way reading in it - such apt introduction of personal experience" (The Examiner, 5th May 1855). Foolscap 8vo (18cm). viii,800 + 32pp advertisements dated July 1857. Portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's cloth by Leighton, Son & Hodge, with their ticket; lightly sunned; slight spine crease; front free endpaper neatly excised, but overall a very good copy. Small contemporary booksellers' label of Mann Nephews of Cornhill.

Virtue & Co, 1867-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. London; no publication date given, Preface dated 1867. Poor condition; reading copy only. Boards detached along with first and last pages, though present; no backstrip; text block is in good condition considering; interior is unmarked; 871 pages.

London, England, United Kingdom: David Bogue, 1855. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st.. THIS IS VOLUME 2 of 2 ONLY which is pages 433 to 871!!! I do NOT have Vol. I. COLLECTIBLE, engravings throughout, NOTE many of the engravings are laid in, in Reverse Mat format which is extremely time consuming and requires a highly skilled person to make it look like a solid page. The Plate facing page 441 was 2 engravings pieced together to form a full page. A Very Unique Volume. The Originally 3/4-leather, has bright gild page edges, lettering/decoration, Original Marbled boards with some tape residue on front leather, had 5-ribbed binding but the Spine cover is in pieces as shown in the pictures and is included, the Cover boards are detached, has Marbled End Papers/Pages, the front has duct tape on it and will require careful patient removal to not further damage the End paper, the rear ones are clean but separated, edge wear, damage to page 433/434 and the first engraving. The text block binding except for the first… Read More