headlam cuthbert sir editor (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition in green cloth boards, no dw BUTthe front of the original dw is enclosed. Some spotting, particularly to page edges. The book is subtitled 'Being some account of the people, their country and their history'. This is more a scholarly work than a travel description, with many illustrations and maps covering Roman occupation and geology. A good, clean, tight copy.

Full Leather. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Dark Navy Blue Morocco Leather with bright gilt titles, applied two colour head and tail bands, gilt top edge. 260 x 195 mm approx. Maps to end papers, xii + 344 pp. Frontis + 21 other monochrome plates + all other text illustrations, maps and plans as called for. No 180 of a Limited Edition of 500 copies on Glastonbury Laid Antique paper. Chapters by various authors on diverse subjects pertaining to the counties including:- Racial Settlement, Place Name, Folk-Lore, Prehistory, Roman Influence, Ecclesiastical and Military Architecture, Agriculture, Coal Mining,Shipping and ship-building,Geology and finally Natural History. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- No notable shelf wear to leather, mild foxing to prelims. and to margins of book block. The prelims. are also a little soiled. Remainder of book block clean and bright apart from occasional spotting from dirt/dust ingression. Binding sound with no other notable defects).

Large 8vo. xii, 342[2]pp, frontis, title-page device, 14 plates (some double-sided), 6 text illustrations, 6 plans and maps (one multifolding). Original pebble-grained blue cloth gilt, teg, ep maps. Light spotting mainly to leaf-edges and margins.