THE CREAM OF CURIOSITY Being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the aviith, xviiith and xixth centuries

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f/piece (photo of room captioned 'Home of the Author's Manuscripts')+tissue-guard+t.p. with dec.border and main title/author's name and imprint in red+xvi+416, 15 (I make it) further plates, ex-pag., one preceding each chapter, fore-edge uncut, top edge gilt; fairly faint tanning to end-papers off-set from jacket and a few flecks/foxing to pastedowns, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked;scarce unclipped jacket clean butl arge chip bottom spine (extending 4.5 cms at peak), numrous other minor edge chips and nicks/tears (these internally closed with archival tear repair tape)and most curiously a 2.5 cm diameter perfect hole bottom front affecting three lines of text, fr. has text and tipped on illustration, pub.list to back, will add protective sleeve when ordered, despite the damage it is fairly acceptable esp.given age. A variety of contents as title indicates from accounts of English Civil War and 18th cent. English tourism to one entitled 'The Rise and Fall of the Umbrella'. Size: 16 Cms x 22.5 Cms. N° de ref. del artículo 011735

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