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Curiosities of London : exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis : with nearly fifty years' personal recollections / by John Timbs.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DA678 .T58 1867 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Timbs, John, 1801-1875.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London (England)--Guidebooks.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Hughes, Thomas Hughes Forde, -1915 (stamp) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 871 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- A new edition, corrected and enlarged.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Virtue & Co., [1867]
- Notes:
- Added engraved title leaf.
- Preface dated at end: Dec. 1867.
- Alphabetically arranged.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy has bookseller's ms. note in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy has oval stamp ("ABERCERI DAVIES NEWCASTLE EMLYN.") of Thomas Hughes Forde Davies, prior to his 1873 change of name to Thomas Hughes Forde Hughes, on verso of frontispiece plate.
- OCLC:
- 708833
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