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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER (JOHN WILKINS, OF STANSTEAD, ESSEX)
by JOHN WILKINS (ARTHUR H. BYNG AND STEPHEN M. STEPHENS- EDITORS) , SIDNEY STARR
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- Condition
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About This Item
LONDON: T.FISHER UNWIN, 1892 Grey Cloth Boards with Gilt blocked titles to spine and front and black blocked illustration to front. 215 x 150 mm approx. 442 pp + 24 publisher's lists/ catalogue. Full photo portrait frontis of subject + 5 line illustrations by Sidney Starr as called for. First Edition 1892. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good- Moderate general shelf wear to cloth and mild soiling. Previous owner name in ink to top margin of free front end paper, light foxing spots to prelims and to exposed edges of uncut leaves of book block, sporadic foxing to tissue guard to illust. at p. 240 with shadow of same to margin of plate. Restoration work - the book was bought in by us dis-bound the mull having failed. The spine of the book block has been cleaned, re glued with p.v.a. new mull and back strip fitted and best match cloth laid under original spine to complete the re-backing whilst retaining the original publishers end papers to produce a book which will now give many more years of service).
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127847
- Title
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER (JOHN WILKINS, OF STANSTEAD, ESSEX)
- Author
- JOHN WILKINS (ARTHUR H. BYNG AND STEPHEN M. STEPHENS- EDITORS) , SIDNEY STARR
- Illustrator
- SIDNEY STARR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- T.FISHER UNWIN
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- The Autobiography of an English Gamekeeper, John Wilkins of Stanstead Essex, Arthur H Byng, Stephen M Stephens, Sidney Starr Illustrated, 1892 H/b , Country Matters, Poaching, Trapping, Snaring, Gamekeeping,
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