Small 4to. (25.5x17.5cm), (iv) + 84 pages + 8 pages of adverts all of local Croydon businesses + 10 full page plates and many other illustrations within the text. A few spots of foxing, the brown endpapers a little faded. Bound in the original red cloth binding, the title etc. in gilt on the front cover. The cover somewhat marked, rubbed on the corners, the spine worn and frayed at the top and bottom, the cloth split on the front hinge for most of its length and the cloth on the rear hinge split for about 6cm. Read more about Corbet Anderson, J. Antiquities of Croydon Church, Destroyed by Fire, January 5th, 1867.
Paris, A. Messein, 1905.
24x15.5 cm. 108 pages. The pages rather browned. A small piece missing from the blank before the title page and a small mark in the margin of one illustration.
Bound in red half-leather with matching marbled paper on the boards, the title etc. in gold on the spine. The leather somewhat rubbed, particularly at the head of the spine, with some loss of the red surface. The front end paper cracked at the hinge, so that the cover is coming loose. The original wrapped bound-in. Read more about Huysmans J.-K. Trois Primitifs
The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688
London, Bell and Daldy, 1866
8vo. (19.5x12.5cm), iv+393 pages. Slight foxing (particularly to the half title page) and a heavy crease in the margin of the first half of the book; some other light creasing and a little roughness to the edges of some pages from when they were separated. A previous owner’s inscription on the half-title page.Read more about Strickland, Agnes Lives of the Seven Bishops
Boston etc., Otis Clap etc., 1854 Small 4to. (24x14cm), 448 pages. Generally a clean copy, a few small marks, one on the corner of the title page, the endpapers rather dusty, the page edges a little marked when the book is closed and two leaves creased and a little dusty in the corners. Bound in the publisher ’ s blue cloth, somewhat faded and worn, but solid, two small tears (aprox. 1cm long) one at the top and one at the bottom of the spine. Read more about Swedenborgism New Church Essays on Science, Philosophy and Religion…
