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56 pages with chromolitho colour plates and illustrations to every page and also the title page, glazed illustrated paper boards, cloth spine, name on contents page and final blank "Geoffrey Arnold", a little offsetting from image to facing page on page 36 left a few small ghost bleed from page 37. There are pale blue bird motif endpapers, all complete and bookseller label "Farmers, Kensington" to inside front board lower inner corner. some handling on the covers and corners and edges worn with rubbing at extremes. Small slim square octavo. Undated, but believed to be 1882. Clean and very presentable copy, usually found wanting in the condition stakes. AND NOT the 1980's reprint. Very Good. *London middle-class family go to the Continent on their holidays and have all the sites and scenes of the places they visit, the Zoo, train stations and carriages, hotel kitchens, Rue de l'epicerie, school, the quay, the Pony Tramway, The Tuilleries, The Palais Royale, etc. Seller Inventory # 8061
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Abroad. Holidays in the 1870's. Children's ...
Publisher: Marcus Ward & Co., London.
Publication Date: 1882
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Ellen E Houghton
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Not applicable
Edition: 1st Edition
