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UK: Longmans Green. Poor. Hardcover. 1878. 649 pages. some pages missing plates and folding charts present semi disbound .

Wisbech: Leach and Son, 1878. First edition (unstated). Hardcover. Very mild rubbing and frayint to spine head and foot (two very small, less than quarter-inch fray tears to spine foot and head), gently bumped and frayed corners, light soiling to boards and spine, light reading crease to spine, faint fading to front and rear joint, light soiling to fore-edges, mainly to top fore-edge, four inch crack to front hinge, moderate spotting to four front endpapers, light spotting from front plate to page one, slightly loose page groupings throughout book, loose rear hinge, light spotting to pages throughout book, faint spotting to Appendices, Index, and rear endpapers, few outer page tears to fore-edge (small tears, less than quarter-inch), quarter-half inch tear to rear endpaper, quarter-inch tear to spine foot, rear board separated from spine head, but binding is solid, else Good. Binder's copy.. Olive green quarto, xxxii, 649 pages, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded), chiefly b&w illustrations… Read More

Wisbech: Leach and Son. London: Longmans. 1878. First edition. Very large 8vo. No DW issued. xxxii, 649pp. Large folding map, torn along a few creases with no loss but worn to edges, coloured lithograph, sl. foxed, 26 plates - incl. 1 fold-out - (all present as called for) + engravings and diagrams to text. Original illustrated green cloth gilt. Extremities sl. worn with corners rubbed and head of tail sl. frayed. Recased with new endpapers. Gift inscription dated 1878 to half-title. Prelims foxed with occ. light foxing and spotting to other pages otherwise a clean and sound copy. VG.

Wisbech: Leach and Son, 1878. First edition, folio (335 x 210 mm), xxxii, 649, [1]pp., ONE OF A VERY FEW LARGE PAPER COPIES, in the list of subscribers only 7 copies are designated as being large paper, coloured frontispiece, large folding map with closed tear repaired with archival paper, 26 plates, including one coloured and some folding, illustrs., in the text, marbled endpapers, cont. green half morocco, marbled boards, expertly rebacked with orig. gilt spine laid-down, a nice copy of the very rare large paper edition. Provenance: With the neat 'Tillard' armorial book stamp.