Clent Books (Est.1977)
LARWOOD, Jacob and John Camden Hotten THE HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDS. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day , London: John Camden Hotten, 1869.Reprint. Hard Cover. Good.. Fifth edition. Spine slightly faded, outer corner edges and spine ends are rubbed, two marks on back cover (see picture). Title page has a ½" tear at the bottom edge. Some webbing is showing at hinge of Preface page, but there is no looseness, it is a good tight copy. There are a few pages with some foxing. Pasted inside front board and endpapers a bookseller's bookplate and newspaper cuttings. There is quite a lot of annotation in ink along the sides of some of the pages, where previous owners have written the names of pubs their location and sometimes a date. Quite a few newspaper cuttings and also slips of paper are pasted to the sides of some of the pages and sometimes to the back of an illustration page, again with the names of pubs and their locations although this may appear to spoil the book, it does make interesting reading especially if you have an interest in old public houses. The cuttings all refer to pubs and signs. Some of the pasted newspaper cuttings have browned the same size area of the opposite page. x, 536pp, including Appendix: Donnell Thornton's signboard Exhibition, Index of all the signs mentioned in the book, plus 16 pages of the publisher's books. With coloured frontispiece, and 100 woodcuts in facsimile by J. Larwood. (7¾"h x 5¼"w) (19.5cms x 13cms) approx. (Book ref. 7569) £45.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Clent Books (Est.1977) , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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