Historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents ; scenes of remarkable events and interesting localities ; and the birth-places, residences, portraits, and monuments, of eminent literary characters ; with a variety of reliques and antiquities connected with the same subjects
by Charles John Smith
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/none as issued
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852. Three quarter leather. Good +/none as issued. A good plus later edition. Three quarter leather over marbled boards. Corners and joints rubbed. Painted top edge. Deckled pages. Binding is sturdy and strong. Joints of this large and heavy volume cracking (see photos). Mild foxing on various pages. With 100 plates, all present. Folio, 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches tall. SMITH, CHARLES JOHN (18031838), engraver, was born in 1803 at Chelsea, where his father, James Smith, practised as a surgeon. He was a pupil of Charles Pye [q. v.], and became a good engraver of book illustrations of a topographical and antiquarian character. He executed a few of the later plates in Charles Stothard's Monumental Effigies, the views of houses and monuments in E. Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, 1830, and several of the plates from illuminated manuscripts for Dibdin's Tour in the Northern Counties of England, 1838. In 1829 Smith published a series of Autographs of Royal, Noble, and Illustrious Persons, with memoirs by John Gough Nichols [q. v.], and later undertook another serial work, Historical and Literary Curiosities, which he did not live to complete. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1837, and died of paralysis in Albany Street, London, on 23 Nov. 1838 -- Dictionary of National Bibliography
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- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 999
- Title
- Historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents ; scenes of remarkable events and interesting localities ; and the birth-places, residences, portraits, and monuments, of eminent literary characters ; with a variety of reliques and antiquities connected with the same subjects
- Author
- Charles John Smith
- Format/Binding
- Three quarter leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- none as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry G. Bohn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1852
- Keywords
- autographs, documents, drawings, engravings, famous places
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- G
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- Marbled boards
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