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    By John Thomas Smith; Wilfred Whitten [ed]
    London   Methuen & Co.
    9.5" by 6.5" xxiv, 332, [with 47 listed and 1 unlisted [pp. 82-83] unnumbered plates] pp.
    An uncommon edition of this work by Hackney-carriage-born John Thomas Smith, offering a nostalgic recollection of London.
    By John Thomas Smith; Wilfred Whitten [ed]

    1905 A Book for a Rainy Day Or Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833 by John Thomas Smith. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Wilfred Whitten. With Illustrations From Contemporary Prints

    London   Methuen & Co.
    9.5" by 6.5" xxiv, 332, [with 47 listed and 1 unlisted [pp. 82-83] unnumbered plates] pp.
    An uncommon edition of this work by Hackney-carriage-born John Thomas Smith, offering a nostalgic recollection of London.
    £110.00
    : 1kgs / : 928E6
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

    This edition is acknowledged by Wilfred Witten, the editor, to be the first thus annotated edition of the work. The first two editions of this work appeared in 1845, the third in 1861.

    Uncommon.

    Quarter paper vellum bound with gilt titles. Heartily illustrated with 47 plates, both monochrome and colour, including a frontispiece of the author (also, a plate missed from the work's 'List of Illustrations' titled 'Perdita Robinson' by J. T. Smith, on an unnumbered page [pp. 82-83]). Collated complete.

    Composed by a previous keeper of prints for the British Museum who was born in the back of a Hackney carriage, this work offers a nostalgic recollection of London, abounding with references to some of the city's best known areas and buildings.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum binding. Externally, some marks and dulling to the colour of the boards and to the spine. Gilding bright. Some bumping to the head and tail of the spine, joints, and corners, which has resulted in a minor closed tear to spine's binding at rear joint, and minor loss of paper cover at corners. Hinges somewhat tender. Gift Inscription on first free endpaper. Internally, pages have spotting and toning throughout, not impacting readability. The odd minor closed tears to bottom edge; these are on plates between pp. 212-213, between pp. 302-303, between pp. 308-39, and between pp. 316-317, not to illustrations in any instance.

    Good

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