Author: TAUNT, HENRY W.
Title: Taunt's Illustrated Map of the Thames
Description: Oxford, Taunt, Henry W. 1878. Hardcover. Used, Hardcover (no dust jacket). Fifth edition. No publication date is stated, but the title page refers to 'From entirely new surveys finished during the summer of 1878, and corrected to the present time'. Includes a mounted original photograph of Taunt's houseboat. Also includes another original mounted photograph of camping out by the riverside; a folding map; a full-page map; a large folding table of distances; 96 small original photographs mounted on 32 double-page maps and one plate. A printed bifolium ad on blue paper for Old Father Thames as written and published by Taunt is tipped-in between the final page of text and the first page of ads. Name and details of former owner are penned on FEP. Shelf-worn boards with several bumps and scores. Outer covering of rear spine side has peeled away. Leading corners of boards are split. Head of page block is dark. First half of pages are quite bumped. Some tanning, nicks and foxing on pages. Contents remain clear. AF. Good.

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