LONDON BELLS : AND WHAT THEY TELL US.
by RAYBOULD, Walter, 1864-1912 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Blackie & Son, 1911. First edition. A delightful book about London for children - not just Oranges and Lemons and other nursery rhymes, but the origins of the city, the Romans, Boadicea, Saxon London, the Danes, Westminster Abbey, the Thames, London Bridge, the Tower, the Great Fire, St. Paul's, London children, St. James's Park, the Crystal Palace, the Zoo, Covent Garden, the docks, and London servants. With colour plates by Wilfrid Ball, W. L. Wyllie, Frank Brangwyn, Samuel Scott, Stanhope Forbes, Vicat Cole, and others, as well as numerous illustrations, some full-page, in the text. Foolscap 4to (23cm). 128pp. Twelve coloured plates. Numerous illustrations. Maps. Music. Original pictorial cloth; a touch dulled, faintly marked and slightly bruised; endpapers and outer leaves a little tanned, but otherwise internally a very good, clean and sound copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44103
- Title
- LONDON BELLS : AND WHAT THEY TELL US.
- Author
- RAYBOULD, Walter, 1864-1912 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Blackie & Son, 1911.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Topography, London, Local History, Children's Books
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