SOME MATERIALS TOWARDS MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE II - 3 Volumes
by John, Lord Hervey: Sedgwick, Romney (Editor)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London:(Eyre and Spottiswoode, Publishers). The Kings Printers, 1931. First Edition Thus. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. London:(Eyre and Spottiswoode, Publishers). The Kings Printers. 1931. 1st edition thus, limited to 900 copies of which this is No. 248. pp.,lxii+313; (315)-648; (649)-1004. Illustrated with 5 portraits. Hardcover. Blue buckram spines all sun-faded, with light soiling and shelfwear. Vol. 2 has 2/88 written on front cover, now faded, in some sort of crayon. The other two volumes have the same numbers to the 1st free end-pages. Volume 3 has some bubbling to covers both front and rear. Top page edges gilt on all volumes. Internally all 3 volumes have a previous owners label to top of 1st free end-page, and all have age-toning to end-papers. Otherwise a very good, clean set. Bindings are tight with hinges intact. *"Printed from a copy of the original manuscript in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle; and from the original manuscript at Ickworth."...Tp.
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26010
- Title
- SOME MATERIALS TOWARDS MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE II - 3 Volumes
- Author
- John, Lord Hervey: Sedgwick, Romney (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London:(Eyre and Spottiswoode, Publishers). The Kings Printers
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- MEMOIRS; LORD JOHN HERVEY; ENGLISH HISTORY;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Tight
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- Shelfwear
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- Buckram
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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