Curiosities of London : exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis / with nearly fifty years' personal recollections. By John Timbs de Timbs, John 1801-1875 - 1867

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Paperback / softback. New.

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.

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… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New.

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.

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

Hardback. New.