first edition Hardcover
1886 · London
by Price, John Edward
London: Blades, East & Blades, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated brown cloth: pictorial front cover inset, and lettering in gilt. Teg. Very good. 298 pages. 38 x 28 cm. Forty-five illustrations printed recto only with a tinted plan of the Guildhall, large fold-out map, plus a handful of chromolithograph plates (one a double-paged of the Alderman's court), and woodcut illustrations in the text. Extensive Index. Definitive study by Price, Honorary Member of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. Corner and backstrip extremity wear, armorial bookplates. (Inventory #: 17288)