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Timbs, John & Gunn, Alexander

ABBEYS, CASTLES AND ANCIENT HALLS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. I. South. II. Midland. III. North.

F. Warne & Co. London. (1883) New edition of 1883 after the 1872 revised and enlarged edition by Gunn. There is no date on the title pages but the last page in each volume bears the legend - 21.6.83 and the first volume has the original Preface to the 2nd edition, dated December 1872. 3 volumes. 187 x 135mm. ppxii,577 - & - ppx,576 - & - ppxi,573. Plus 18 plates, including the 3 frontispiece plates. An exceptionally sound and bright set in the publisher’s original brown cloth, elaborately decorated with pictorial designs in gilt, silver and black on the upper boards and spines. Each volume has the armorial bookplate of P.H. Fowell-Watts on the front pastedown endpaper.

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