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Brown full leather boards, 5 raised bands, tan label to second compartment with title in gilt, tooling to edges of boards (worn), 372pp, light pencil notes to front paste down, b&w engraving tipped in to front, also b&w frontispiece of a view of the Cathedral church, 2 fold out plates showing the exterior and plans of the cathedral, fold out plate of crest of Sir Arthur Owen from Bodowen chapel Anglesey, 2 small blackened holes to p 341, pages are foxed but text is clear throughout, edges foxed, neat ,probably 18th century, annotations in ink to margins, corners are bumped, a few marks to boards but binding is secure.

Full-Leather. Condizione: Good. Second. Brown leather boards have a decorative gilt line along the margins, 10% of which has rubbed away. Spine, with five raised bands has lost its label and most of the gilt decoration; loss around head 5 mm in depth; front hinge of spine rubbed and split 3 mm at top and 3 mm at base, holding firm nevertheless. Internally a few splodges to endpapers; one, 1 cm in diameter seeping through to the next two (blank) pages. Half-title with ads on the reverse, title page completely clean (save for contemporaneous signature), dedication page, 2 page introduction, 4 page dedication, xliv (preface), 212 (starting with County of Bedford) + 30 pp Appendix (unpaginated). Gutter between rear endpapers partly exposed but holding firm. Pages clean and crisp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.