Thynne Roger (5 results)

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library, foxing, rubbed cover. Good otherwise. 460 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good+ condition for age of book. Evidence of bumping and rubbing on corners and edges. Spine has evidence of rubbing and bumping on top and bottom edges. Very minor losses on top and bottom edges. Slight marking bottom of spine. Internal hardcovers in very good+ condition. Evidence of slight tanning and marking. Pencil mark on front internal hardcover. Internal pages in very good+ condition and clean. Evidence of tanning and spotting on first and back page. Pencil mark on first page top corner. Illustrations in black and white. Frontispiece included. Evidence of tanning and spotting on external page edges. 460pp Overall in very good condition for age.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard cover, 12mo, bound in black leather-covered (flexible) boards with double rules of red horizontally across the boards and spine, between which are titles blocked in gold. Curved corners to boards. Top of text block edges are stained brown, with white wove end papers, and illustrated with some 48 black and white halftone photo reproductions, and with a color foldout map at the rear of the book. Printed in Great Britain by The Devonshire Press, Torquay, xxxii, 1-460pp. [4]pp. In English. CONDITION: Very Good. One small mark to boards. Some light shelf wear and a bit of fray at the head and tail of the spine. Inside is clean, hinges in order, and pages are only slightly age-toned. A still very useable quide to its subject for the tourist or art historian, which the Author describes as his personal selection of favorites to show visitors to the Eternal City. The Foreward gives a brief history of the Christian Church in Rome, and a vocabulary for discussing the architectural components. Descriptions of 35 individual churches follow, each with their own chapters on the origins, decorations and particular merits to be found within, and feast day calendar. Book.

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 12mo, xxxii, 460pp. Folding plan of central Rome, 48 plates. Original black cloth, with titling blocked in gilt on the spine and the front board. Binding a little rubbed and scuffed, endpapers lightly foxed, short ownership inscription, contents very good. Overall, this copy is in good plus condition. A rare volume which was published in a binding to match the many books on travel in Italy written by Augustus J C Hare.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 578. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1924 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 578.