Secret Hiding-places: The Origins, Histories and Descriptions of English Secret Hiding-places Used by Priests, Cavaliers, Jacobites & Smugglers
Author(s):
Squiers, Granville
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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| Size: | 6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
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| Impression: | 1st Impression |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Stanley Paul |
| Publication Year: | 1934 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| SKU: | 028721 |
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| Categories: | History - General , Vintage Books |
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First edition. 288, [8, publisher's catalogue], with 32 black and white plate illustrations. In tan cloth-covered boards with black titles on the spine. 8vo. Cloth is worn, rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, cracked over joints and fraying at spine ends. Some spotting on text block edges. Endpapers lightly spotted, with a gift inscription neatly inked on front free endpaper, pages a little creamy else internally neat, clean and tight. Newspaper clipping regarding the discovery of paintings at the former house of John Wesley (another hiding place?) loosely laid in.
Keywords:
Hiding Places
Smuggling
Priest Holes
Vintage Books
