Author: LENNEP, J. VAN & J. TER GOUW,
Title: Het Boek der Opschriften. Een Bijdrage tot de Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Volksleven. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Kraay, 1869. Original clothbacked marbled boards. Hftitle (verso blank), original coloured lettered and illustrated lithographed title-print (verso blank), ti.-p. (verso with printer's imprint). (xii), 412pp. Over 50 woodengravings in text, table of contents. Dutch language review of signboards, folklore, history and development. A copy of the FIRST edition. Good. (some light shaving to extremities of boards, some light wear to spine-ends due to shelving, old paper label on spine, spine a bit affected by air-bubbles, some offsetting to verso of title-print with small rubber-stamped ownership's name at upper-and lower right corner, all in al a good to very good copy).

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