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Verlag: London : Thomas Tegg, 1831
Anbieter: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
A new edition, with an index by William Hone. Crown 4to (270 mm); lxvii, 420 pp; half green cloth over silk covered boards, edges of spine and corners rubbed, as are the head and tail of the spine; title in gilt letters to spine; marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Rt. Hon. Dodgson Hamilton Maddon laid down inside the front cover; scrawled inscriptions to the endpaper. A solid and clean copy. NB: AS THIS IS A HEAVY BOOK AN EXTRA POSTAGE CHARGE WILL APPLY. Book.
Verlag: Chatto & Windus, London, 1876
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A smart edition of this charming work on the pastimes of the English people from the 1800s, with illustrations throughout. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and one hundred and forty in-text engravings from ancient manuscripts. A detailed account of the sports and pastimes enjoyed by the people of England, including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles from the earliest period to contemporary time. Written by Joseph Strutt, an English engraver, artist, writer, and antiquary remembered as an "influential but totally neglected figure in the history of art in Britain" - Sir Roy Strong. Edited by William Hone, an English writer and bookseller. In the original full green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good. book.