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Red cloth binding with gilt spine lettering, virtually pristine. (2 blank leaves + half-title with trans. name to verso + t.p. with with brown subtitle and brown & red central ill. signed 'R. Grosser' and verso statement that this limited ed. of 960 for United Kingdom, with small pub.logo beneath + small tipped in note regarding colour ill. printing method+ col f/piece (XVIth cent map)+ 2 pp. Introduction with header and footer ills, verso number p.X, so previopus pp. inc.in pagination+331, 5 col plates ex-pagination (inc. f/piece and a further map), numerous text ills throughout on various sizes, inc. many full page, with headers and footers, these are un-numbered but fr. of jacket says 140, top edge orange. The only fault I can see is tanning to outer sides of endpapers off-set from jhacket, so probably common to all copies. Brown jacket with title to front similar to internal title-page with same brown (but not yellow) lettering and ill., not price-clipped but all wraparound corners diagonally cut as issued, minimally worn, 5 cm. tear from top back spine corner + associated top edge nicks now internally closed, otherwise no edge-wear, generally very clean, slight variation in intensity of colour but no obvious fading, trivial scatter of white pigment loss spot bottom fr corner and hints of slight spine rubbing, all this adds up to very little and given age it must be considered near-Fine, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 23 cm x 29.5 cm Weighs over 1.5 kg. so allow for extra postage & packing especially outside UK. Seller Inventory # 012248
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