LONDON de Edwards, George Wharton - 1922

NY: Scribner & Co., 1922. Print. VG. No Binding. 8vo. Decorated title - page, and 8 full - page plates, most printed on both sides, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Magazine, Volume LXXII, No. 4, October, 1922. Illustrations include Trafalgar Square and the Monument, Buckingham Palace, Chantry of Henry V with the tomb, the Thames Embankment showing Somerset House, the Egyptian Obelisk, and the Bridge, Piccadilly Circus, the great banqueting Hall of the Temple, the entrance to the Temple with the ancient house fronts, and the Tower of London..

Philadelphia 1922 first edition. Penn. Large 4to hardcover. Beautiful cover with full gilt decoration and red, silver and blue flag. 395p. Many illustrations, some in color. All with tissue guards. Light foxing on some pages. Gilt bright on front board but although spine lettering impressions show, all gilt has faded off backstrip. No dj. .

The Penn Publishing Company , 1922. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Owner bookplate on inside front hinge. Owner marks in pencil on index pages, no owner marks in text. All plaltes intact with tissue guards intact. Large book so no international orders please. Ornate decorations in gold, red, white and blue on front cover and spine. Spine somewhat faded. Top edge gilt. british history.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1922. 185p., many colored and b/w illus., large quarto format, dj.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to; 395 pages, cloth, extra-gilt top cover, spine dulled 50 plates of illustrations by Edwards, plus in-text decorations.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, nd (1922). Gilt decorated black cloth, top edges gilt. Hinges cracked and reglued: VG+/no dj. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white by George Wharton Edwards.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company 1922. (4to) 395pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering and illustration and color device to the cover and spine. Top edge gilt, two-color illustrated frontispiece and title page, tissue guard, illustrations, black and white and color illustrated plates, index. The covers are lightly edgeworn, speckling to the bottom edge, and a very faint damp stain to the bottom of the back cover, one of the first pages is partly detached from the binding and there is a previous owner's inscription on the first page. "London is a great subject and presents a formidable task which is illy considered and executed if, when done, the labor of omission though concealed, is not found to have been its most difficult part" - from the Foreword. Locale: London--England. (History--England, Cities, History--England).

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., c1922. Hardcover. Very good conditon . 395p. illus.