SAINTS AND THEIR EMBLEMS. Illustrated by XII. Plates from Photographs and Drawings by Wilfred Drake.
by DRAKE, Maurice; DRAKE, Wilfred. Foreword by: VALLANCE, Aymer
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About This Item
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1916. . First edition, folio, pp.xiii,235, uncut, backed in cream cloth, gilt, grey paper-covered boards, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with tissue guard, colour and b/w plates; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, and slight residue of removed label to front free endpaper, just occasional light foxing, light wear to paper covering at corners of boards, light bruising to front lower corner, a very good, clean copy.
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- Bookseller
- MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35023
- Title
- SAINTS AND THEIR EMBLEMS. Illustrated by XII. Plates from Photographs and Drawings by Wilfred Drake.
- Author
- DRAKE, Maurice; DRAKE, Wilfred. Foreword by: VALLANCE, Aymer
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1916.
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