The Scouring of the White Horse: Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk
by HUGHES, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, Macmillan, 1859., 1859. First edition. Small 8vo. Illustrated by Richard Doyle, engraved by W.J. Linton. 16 page publisher's Christmas catalog bound in at end, dated 1858. Original gilt stamped pictorial dark blue pictorial cloth, a.e.g. (some fraying to spine); yellow endpapers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Doyle (1824-1883), English artist and book illustrator. Hughes (1822-1896), English MP, Utopianist, and author of "Tom Brown's School Days," etc. Houfe, p. 288. Osborne p. 998. Engen p. 197.. F. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2094
- Title
- The Scouring of the White Horse: Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk
- Author
- HUGHES, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- F
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Macmillan, 1859.
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- LITERATURE
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