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Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, municipal, baronial, and popular antiquities / edited by Charles Knight ; in two volumes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio DA90 .K69 1855 Frost copy v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, Charles, 1791-1873.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- England--Antiquities.
- England.
- Antiquities.
- England--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- England--Description and travel.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Historic buildings--England.
- Historic buildings.
- Historic sites--England.
- Historic sites.
- Genre:
- Wood engravings -- Color.
- Specimens.
- Metal cuts -- Color.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Henry Sotheran Ltd. (stamp) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 36 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : James Sangster and Co., [not before 1855]
- Notes:
- Terminus ad quem for publication from latest date of events chronicled.
- First edition published: London, C. Knight & Co., 1845.
- "Illuminated engravings of old England": Vol. 1, p. iii-iv ; v. 2, p. iii-v.
- Twenty-four illustrative plates (12 in each volume).
- Text in double columns.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy: v. 1 has bookseller's ms. note in pencil on back free endpaper.
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy: each vol. has stamp ("SOTHERAN. SACKVILLE ST. LONDON") on verso of front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 980832577
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