Author: DASENT Arthur
Title: The History of St. James's Square and the Foundation of the West End of London. With a Glimpse of Whitehall in the Reign of Charles the Second. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
Description: Macmillan,, 1895. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 8 plates, 13 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding map; original pictorial cloth gilt, upper board blocked and ruled in blind, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a few small marks on lower board else a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION, INCORPRATING A COUPLET FROM BYRON, ON HALF-TITLE. With the nineteenth-century engraved pictorial bookplate of Mary Alice Crawley on front paste-down. This scarce work in the first dedicated history of one of London's most fashionable squares.

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