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    By Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
    London   John Bowyer Nichols and Son
    9.5" by 6.5" xxviii, 540, 541-1093pp plus plates
    The uncommon second edition of Fosbroke's impressive reference work, with splendid fold-out plates.
    By Thomas Dudley Fosbroke

    1840 Encyclopedia of Antiquities, and Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediaeval. In Two Volumes.

    London   John Bowyer Nichols and Son
    9.5" by 6.5" xxviii, 540, 541-1093pp plus plates
    The uncommon second edition of Fosbroke's impressive reference work, with splendid fold-out plates.
    £225.00
    : 3kgs / : LTH16-D-5
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    Leather Binding

    Complete in Two Volumes. With forty-five plates, collated complete. One ink stamp for Natural History Society, to title page. With a decorative bookplate for Paul Quick Karkeek to the front pastedown. 'A New Edition, with Improvements'. There is a T. Stephens bookbinder's label to the front pastedowns. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, 1770-1842, antiquary. The Encyclopaedia of Antiquities was Fosbroke's largest work and "the first English publication of its kind" -ODNB.

    Condition

    Recently rebacked in cloth, with half calf boards. Externally, rubbed to extremities. The hinges are strained. Internally, firmly bound, with foxing to the plates, first and last few pages, and pages around the plates. The frontis has been laid down. With a Torquay Natural History Society ink stamp to the title page.

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