Stockport: Ancient and Modern. With more than one hundred heliotypes and wood engravings. In two volumes.
Book Description
A pair of large first edition volumes. Each book cover 12.5 inches x 10”, thick and extremely heavy. Although having a few faults such as the marks on front covers, and a little foxing to page edges, these are still 2 attractive volumes, full of fascinating topographical information and plates about Stockport, before and at the time of publication.
Author
Henry Heginbotham
Date
1882 (vol 1) & 1892 (vol 2)
Binding
Leather and cloth. Gold gilt to spine, and gold gilt lining to leather on covers. AEG.
Publisher
Sampson Low, Marston & Company
Condition
Some staining to cloth covers, mainly front, see pictures. A little splitting to marbled paper hinges. Damp mark on one blank end paper (shown in photograph).Generally nice clean solid copies. Occasional minor foxing.
Pages
Volume 1 - xvi, 358; Volume II - xxiii, 473.
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