WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF IRONMONGERS 1866 ZAEHNSDORF FINE LEATHER BINDING
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[NICHOLL, JOHN]. Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. Compiled from their own Records and other Authentic Sources of Information. London: [privately printed], M.DCCC.LXVI. [1866].
Second edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (270 x 210 x 65 mm). Pp. xii, (2), 657. English text. Bound in stunning full blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf (signed in a gilt pallet to the front . All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Half-title. Title-page in red and black. Numerous illustrations including decorative initial letters, armorial arms, facsimile seals and letters, drawings in-the-text, facsimile signatures, plans, specimen plates etc., some folding. Extensive printed footnotes. Appendix and index of names at rear. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the hinges intact. Covers largely very well-preserved with some fading to the spine. Interior lightly toned but very clean and without previous ownership markings. An exquisite example.