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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Virtue and Co. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Red cloth, elaborately decorated in black and gilt, with text block edges in gilt, bevelled edges. Mild shelf wear, cloth a bit soiled, mildly sunned spine panel, but overall quite presentable, with gilt edges remaining bright. Approx. 2" closed tear to cloth extending along upper rear joint has been mended, and the cloth is a bit puckered as a result. viii,516 pp., illus. w/ 31 "highly finished portraits on steel," each with its own tissue guard. A lovely book, decently preserved. Undated, ca. 1870s..

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: W. F Rutter & Son, 1865. slight chipping/rubbing to corners of front/rear boards. large closed tear at the guttering of the ffep which has been repaired by a previous owner with tape. Previous owners inscription to head of ffep, overall pp are very clean and binding is tight. some minor discolouration to gilt edges of text block else a clean and tidy copy.. Half Leather. Good. 4to.

London: Virtue & Co, 1883. Early printing. Leather bound. Good. 516pp. Quarto [28 cm] 3/4 black leather with brown pebbled cloth over boards, and raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece illustration of the bust of Queen Victoria. The extremities are rubbed, and there is a thin loss from the leather at the head of the backstrip. The hinges are broken and the text block is coming away from the boards. The text block is also cracked a number of times, and several of the gatherings are a bit loose. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the front flyleaf. All plates are present. Illustrated by Thirty-One Highly-Finished Portraits on Steel. Lovely illustrations accompanied with engaging, yet simple text.

London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, 1851. Tall thick 8vo. 7.75 x 11 in. viii, 516 pp. Steel-engraved frontisp., 27 steel-engraved plates. Cobalt-blue publisher’s cloth, decorated & illustrated in gilt front cover & spine, back cover embossed in blind, a.e.g. (chipping, wear, rubbing to corners, spine rebacked w/ original spine laid-back down, endpapers renewed, a couple signature slightly sprung, a few engravings w/ old scotch tape ghosting at gutter margins), still a VG- copy. First edition of this nicely illustrated book production from Mary Howitt issued as homage to Queen Victoria the year that the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace in London opened. Several of the Queen of England biographies featured with include Eleanor of Acquitaine, Bernegaria of Navarre, Eleanor of Castille, Anne of Bohemia, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth of York, Katharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, tragic Lady Jane Grey, Mary the First, Queen Elizabeth I, and even Queen Victoria herself. Howitt (1799-1888) is… Leer más