E White Esq (2 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Marbled paper over boards with brown leather spines and tips. Graded "Very Good" due wear to hinges and replacement of original spine insets with paper. Internals are amazingly clean with little or no foxing to any of the plates or maps. All (both Vols.) illustrations mentioned on page xx of Volume One are present except an inset woodcut (boat) on pg. 150. All plates (Tri-fold, Bi-fold and single page) are present. All large maps have slight infold tears due to handling. Black & White Plates, Maps and Woodcuts (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Small octavo. Half title, frontispiece, title page, advertisement leaves, contents, 212 pages and 16 engraved plates, all complete as called for. Manuscript notes to front and rear blank leaves, all in the contemporary hand of E. Patteshall Allenmore, former Mayor of Hereford and Conservative M.P. for Hereford. Bound in original half-calf boards in good order. Inner hinges broken but boards firmly attached. Old worming to front pastedown. Billiard table maker trade card of E. Erwood to rear pastedown. An interesting example of the first edition of the first book (in English) on the subject of billiards.…