Notes Antiquities Devonshire Date Before by Davidson (2 results)
Published by Exeter: W. Roberts, 1861. First edition., 1861
- Hardcover
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, CanadaWilliam Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop
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£ 123.41
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Add to basketOriginal cloth, title on printed paper label on front board. 88pp. Yellow coated end papers. Ownership signatures on front end paper, some repair to the upper spine, a nice clean copy. Originally printed in Trewman's Exeter Flying Post, this book edition was produced by that same newspaper. Basically an alphabetical directory of… places in the district, with antiquarian notes. Scarce.
Published by W Roberts, Exeter,, 1861
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United KingdomIsland Books
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£ 420.00
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Add to basket8vo., First Edition, with a tipped-in illustration and large folding engraved map on cloth, COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE, map lightly foxed, tiny later signature on front free endpaper; original green coarse-grain cloth, printed paper label on upper cover, printed paper label (lightly browned but entirely legible) on backstrip, r…ed sprinkled edges, yellow endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a splendid, crisp, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE AND A LONG A.L.s TIPPED-IN AT END. With a contemporary sheet folded to 4pp containing a manuscript list in a very neat scholarly hand of 69 'ancient camps or hill fortresses in the County of Devon' and enclosing a separate manuscript plan of Milber Down Camp near Newton Abbot. With the author's memorial bookplate, and trade ticket of Exeter Rare Books, on front paste-down. This valuable work appeared originally as a series of articles in Trewman's 'Exeter Flying Post' newspaper. A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE PRESENTATION COPY. Rare. Brockett 17040. Astonishingly, not in Anderson.
