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xxvi - 438, xxvi - 447 pages, Top edge gilt pages uncut 2 volumes, small 4to., 68 plates reproduced from the original's drawings and prints many in colour from collection of Joseph Grego. limited to 1000 copies, bound in matching red cloth with gilt fencing scene to base of front board of each volume, a vg set. First published in 1830. The work gives an insight to the characters and the society of the time Angelo was the most distinguished member of a family of swordsmen and one of the fathers of modern fencing. Seller Inventory # 23036
Title: The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo. With an ...
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd
Publication Date: 1904
Edition: 1st thus Edn,.
Seller: James Hawkes, LONDON, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two volumes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1904. First edition. Thick 4to. xxvi,438,[2]; xxxvi,447,[1]pp. Portrait frontispiece & sixty seven further plates from contemporary sources, many in colour. Titles printed in red and black. §A sumptuously illustrated reprint of the 1828 original, one of an edition limited to one thousand copies. Original red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Slight offsetting to tissue-guards. Some foxing as usual, chiefly to preliminaries, fore-edges and lower edges and sporadically elsewhere, almost entirely clear of illustrations; in all other respects, a very good set. (**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY** - Heavy/overweight item weighing 4.3 kg packed, therefore additional postage will be required for overseas orders - International customers, please ask for a prior shipping quote). Seller Inventory # 300691
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