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Rare and modern books

Dasent Arthur

The History of St. James's Square and the Foundation of the West End of London. With a Glimpse of Whitehall in the Reign of Charles the Second. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY

Macmillan, 1895

96.60 €

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(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1895
Author
Dasent Arthur
Publishers
Macmillan
Keyword
topography, london, st. jamess square, west end, squares, mayfair, piccadilly, belgravia, arthur dasent, topography, london, history, st., james's, square, foundation, west, end, london
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 8 plates, 13 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding map; original pictorial cloth gilt, upper board blocked and ruled in blind, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a few small marks on lower board else a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION, INCORPRATING A COUPLET FROM BYRON, ON HALF-TITLE. With the nineteenth-century engraved pictorial bookplate of Mary Alice Crawley on front paste-down. This scarce work in the first dedicated history of one of London's most fashionable squares.
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