Sharpe's London Journal of Entertainment and Instruction for general reading, volumes VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, & XV [ bound in 4 books ]

Various illustrated by W.H. Bartlett, T. Creswick, H. Courbould, D. Teniers, T. Stothard, C.F. Bentley and others

Published by Published by A.Hall, Virtue & Co. 1848-1852, London, 1848

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, volume VIII 256 pages ( lacks pages 1 - 127 ) illustrated with 4 of 8 engraved plates, volume IX 256 pages with 8 plates, volume X 384 pages ( lacks pages 1 - 64 ) with 9 of 12 plates, volume XIII 384 pages ( lacks pages 1 - 64 ) with 10 of 12 plates all other volumes have 384 pages with 12 plates each, beautiful engravings First Edition , all volumes in similar condition showing slight general shelf wear, corners a little rubbed, most plates show a few small light foxing spots, in all but a few cases these are confined to the margins of the plates, a very few pages have minor edge tears, where pages or plates are lacking they have not been bound in rather than having been removed, nice copies of a scarce publication with very good plates , half brown calf with marbled paper to boards, five raised bands with gilt decoration and tooling, gilt title to green spine label, tooled edges to leather of covers, all edges and endpapers marbled Quarto (over 10 - 12 inches tall) Hardback ISBN: Seller Inventory # 20637

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sharpe's London Journal of Entertainment and...

Publisher: Published by A.Hall, Virtue & Co. 1848-1852, London

Publication Date: 1848

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition