26th Oct, 2022 9:30

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 61
 

London.

London.-

A collection of 23 volumes, including:

Brayley (E. W.) Londiniana; or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis…, 4 vols., 103 plates including frontispieces, many folding, some spotting, bookplates of Prof. Eric Gerald Stanley, modern half calf by Bayntun, some rubbing to extremities, Hurst, Chance & co., 1829;

Fearnside (W. G.) Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway…, First Edition, 80 tissue-guarded engraved plates, no folding panorama of London as usual, original blind-stamped cloth, worn at head and foot of spine, Black and Armstrong, [c.1840];

Mayhew (Henry) London Labour and the London Poor; Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work, 3 vols., First Edition, portrait frontispiece, numerous wood-engraved plates, contemporary cloth gilt, worn and stained, spines cracked, some loss, George Woodfall & Sons, 1851;

Robinson (William) History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hackney in the County of Middlesex, 2 volumes bound in 1, First Edition, all plates and maps present as called for, but the pedigree of the Tyssen Family (at page 323) is lacking, some of the early pages have been edge strengthened, and an uncalled for map of 'Hackney before its division into District Parishes' has fold tears, many plates with water staining, original blind-tooled cloth, recased preserving original spine, new endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, John Bowyer Nichols et al.,1842;

With others similar, mixed condition and bindings, v.s. (23)

Sold for £350

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