Resultados de búsqueda: A Descriptive Account Of the Guildhall Of the Ci… de John, Edward Price

Blades East and Blades. Very Good. 1886. Hardcover. 47 monochrome plates, iii + 298pp, top edge gilt, bound in brown cloth. Bumped and sl chipped at the head and foot of the spine, joints rubbed.chipped sl xlib evidence; Folio - .

PRICE, John Edward. A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE GUILDHALL OF THE CITY OF LONDON: ITS HISTORY AND ASSOCIATIONS. London: Blades, East, and Blades, 1886. Large folio. Publisher's cloth. (ii) viii, 298, (1) pages, 45 plates, many of which are in color. First edition. Being a lavishly printed history of the Guildhall, written from original documents, with facsimiles of charters, maps, and other illustrations. This a Presentation Copy with an ornate bookplate from the Guildhall. The binding signed by Simpson and Renshaw. The front hinge is internally cracked but fir the title page and last two leaves are foxed, else very good.

published by the Corporation of the City of London, 1886,. see description. first edition, 385x285mm with a 70mm-wide spine and wrist-wrenchingly heavy, vii,298pp + separately-printed documents, title page printed red and black, 45 illustrations, printed single-sided on card, original documents with initial capitals in colour, contemporary engravings throughout its ages, including a very detailed pictorial survey on Civitas Londinum in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, a tinted 1750 plan of the Guildhall and its surroundings, engravings, drawings, aquatints and chromolithographs of the various aspects of the exterior and the interior, statues, the crypt, the chapel, tipped in a double-page full colour painting of the Aldermen's court room with a loose tissue guard beteen the two pages, another coloured double-page of its painted ceiling, and one of the Council Chamber with full attendance, an engraving of the Common Council Chamber, one of the procession of Her Majesty (Victoria) to the State Hall,… Leer más