post office directory (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Worn condition. Cover heavily rubbed and soiled. Front cover holding but almost detached. Fep loose. Tears to cloth along spine. I Contemporary ink inscriptions to eps. Some soiling within. 190mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 123pp. Engraved title page and endpaper. Brown hardback cloth cover with black cloth spine.

Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the spine and the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [lxxx] 338; 32; 80 printed pages of text. Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde Council area in Scotland, and a former Burgh in the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland, with Gourock to the West and Port Glasgow to the East. Publisher's note tipped-in to the title page explaining how it has been impossible to include a Plan of the Town. Spine very slightly sun faded and in Very Good clean and tight condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SCOTLAND (Gaelic: Alba).

pp. xxvi, 1400; (1401)-2652, 350 Advertisements. Both volumes ex-Guildhall Library in later library cloth, the STREETS Directory has the title repaired at the fore-edge margin and the first leaf of Introduction is torn with loss of around a quarter of the text, there are a number of marginal nicks and some corners have been clipped with very slight loss, a few leaves repaired in the fore-edge margins, one leaf torn with loss; the TRADES Directory with first text leaf torn with loss of a few characters, one leaf with a large tear in the margin but no loss, one other leaf torn in the fore-edge margin with old repair and slight loss, overall a few edge tears and no loss and in rather better order than the Streets volume, both offered as working, reference copies, with all faults.

A long, but broken run of 72 volumes of the foremost and longest lasting directory of Edinburgh and Leith. Starting io the first years of the 19th Century, the publication continued for 200 years. These 72 volumes are in various condition. Text is complete in all cases, but maps are only present where stated. Sold as a collection only, please contact me for shipping/delivery options; they would need to be packed in 8 â" 10 boxes. 1839/40, 1847/48 [ex-library], 1854/55, 1855/56 [ex-library], 1864/65 [worn], 1867/68, 1868/69 [plan of Edinburgh], 1869/70 [worn], 1870/71 [rebound, with plan of Edinburgh & Leith], 1872/73 [worn, inner hinges broken], 1874/75 [stained, with inner hinges broken], 1875/76 [cloth stained, map present], 1876/77 [stained and shaken], 1879/80 [worn, inner hinges broken], 1883/84 [shaken and worn], 1889/90 [rebound, no title page], 1891/92 [rebound], 1892/93, 1895/96, 1897/98 [shaken], 1900/01 [stained], 1901/02, 1904/05, 1905/06 [spine split], 1906/07 [shaken and spine split], 1907/08 ]joints tender], 1908/09 [spine split], 1909/10 [shaken], 1911/12 [shaken, preliminaries loose], 1912/13, 1914/15 [shaken], 1915/16 [hinges strained], 1917/18 [hinges strained. Map of Edinburgh], 1918/19 [preliminaries loose], 1920/21 [hinges strained], 1922/23 [old repair to rear hinge], 1923/24 [cover spotted], 1926/27 [shaken and chipped], 1928/29, 1933/34 [old repairs to hinges], 1934/35, 1937/8 [old repairs to hinges], 1938/39, 1939/40, 1940/41 [joints broken], 1941/42, 1942/43, 1943/44, 1944/45, 1945/46, 1946/47, 1948/49, 1949/50, 1950/51 [hinges cracked], 1951/52, 1952/53, 1955/56, 1956/57, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959/60, 1962/63, 1963/64, 1964/65, 1965/66, 1966/67, 1967/68, 1969/70, 1971/72, 1972/73, 1973/74, 1974/75.