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Family Secrets. or hints to those who would make home happy.
London: Fisher, Son and Co., no date [1843]. [Literature] ILLUSTRATED Three volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 8cm). Brown half calf over brown cloth sides, gilt titles on darker brown calf squares to spine. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and half title page plus another twenty-five plates spread between..... More
The Dolly Dressmaker. Original Book of Cutting and Dressing with Original Artwork of 10 Paintings on board.
Printed in England, B.B. (Birn Brothers) Ltd., 1950's. The Book: Folio. No. 509. Soft pictorial covers with 16 pages, 8 of which are printed in colour. The Artwork: 10 hand painted hard board leaves, same size as the book, being the original artwork for the front and back covers as..... More
Neues Panorama Des Rheins Von Mannheim Bis Coln; and, The Rhine From Maynece To Cologne.
Mainz: Verlag von D Kapp, and Mainz: Joseph Halenza, n.d. [c.1880]. Leporello, or concertina map, in tall octavo boards (30 x 17.5cm; map extends to 242cm). In stiff paperboards with recent red cloth spine, decorative foliate border with titles in black to front board, reproduced to rear board with alternative..... More
Tonbridge Legends, Etc.
London: Kent and Co, Tonbridge: Richard Ware, n.d. [1866]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.232. With seven engraved plates. Green cloth with ornate gilt margins to boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Spine has at some point been professionally rebacked. Bookbinders label of Hanbury and..... More
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