Author: BAEDEKER, Karl. [Robert Anning Bell bookplate]
Title: The United States [Association Copy Emslie John Horniman]: With an Excursion Into Mexico. Handbook for Travellers. Edited by Karl Baedeker. With 19 Maps and 24 Plans. Second Revised Edition.
Description: Leipsic Leipzig and London, Karl Baedeker, Publisher. (London) Dulau and Co. 1899. Usual limp red cloth, lettered gilt, ruled in blind. Decorative bookplate to paste-down, green silk marker, c+579pp, all maps and plans as called for. Cloth browning (usual with this edition), a good tight copy with just light signs of use and a tiny amount of fraying to spine head. Small tie mark to leading edge, very occasional neat ink annotations - presumably in Mr Horniman's hand? Emslie John Horniman's decorative woodcut "Garden Corner Chelsea" by Robert Anning Bell ex-libris/bookplate to paste-down.

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