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Published by Oxford At The Clarendon Press, 1932
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1932. No Edition Remarks. 509 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Comprises two volumes in one edition. Edited & collected by R. W. Chapman. Contains black and white illustrations & photographs, including frontispiece. On India paper. Five tipped-in folding maps and folding facsimile of a letter. Various indexes. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning and foxing to pastedowns and inserts. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened but remains secure. Pen & pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper with previous owner's stamp. Minor dog-eared corners and creasing to some pages. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Faint ring mark to front board. Signs of some faint water staining to boards. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled. Boards slightly bowed.
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, 1932
Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. NB: No dustjackets. Blue marbled paper-covered boards with titles within paper labels on blue cloth spines. Condition: Fair to good, both volumes have general shelfwear to covers, more so to cover corners which are quite rubbed. Faint water splashmark to front cover of Volume I. Some foxing and browning to spine labels. However there is a spare replacement spine label tipped in to the rear of each volume, so these could be replaced if so wished. Each volume has the previous owners bookplate on the front pastedown. Volume I also has another previous owners name in ink and the date 1933. 266pp + 242pp as well as various addenda and notes to each volume. Several illustrations, and a folding map to the rear of each volume. Both maps have some foxing.