The Glasgow Directory Containing a List of the Merchants Manfacturers Traders in the City nd Suburbs Alphabetically Arranged and a List of Magistrates Council Merchant and Trades Houses Also the Magistrates of Calton Gorbals and Anderston 1826 - 1828
by Anon
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Powys, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Glasgow: Printed By W Lang. Very Good. 1826. Hardcover. 22nd edition, The text is incomplete, there are six leaves missing from the appendix at rear, our collation reading: 232, 44pp, with 6 pages of engraved advertisments, with one folding plate. 2 pps of index repired, bound in new red cloth spine, paper title/orginal marbled boards. Scarce; Small Octavo .
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- Bookseller
- Castle Hill Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61423
- Title
- The Glasgow Directory Containing a List of the Merchants Manfacturers Traders in the City nd Suburbs Alphabetically Arranged and a List of Magistrates Council Merchant and Trades Houses Also the Magistrates of Calton Gorbals and Anderston 1826 - 1828
- Author
- Anon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Printed By W Lang
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1826
- Keywords
- Glasgow
- Bookseller catalogs
- Directories and Whitakers Almanacks;
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