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Item Details

Description

Their Lives and Works

First edition.

Publishers green cloth with gilt title and vignettes.

Gilt title and vignette to spine.

Triple gilt page-blocks.

Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard.

5 full-page colour plates with tissue-guards.

In-text illustrations.

Sporadic foxing.

A very lovely copy.
Publisher

Groombridge & Sons., London

Author

Sara Wood

Date Published

1875

Binding

Hardback

Condition

Good

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