Lot 1282 , LONDON: A Brief Account of the Guildhall of the City of London, 2 engraved plates, near contemporary half calf, London, John Nichols and Son, 1819, 8vo. Sold with ‘An Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monu

° LONDON: A Brief Account of the Guildhall of the City of London, 2 engraved plates, near contemporary half calf, London, John Nichols and Son, 1819, 8vo. Sold with ‘An Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and Curiosities’, 1809, and E.I. Carlos’ ‘Historical and Antiquarian Notices of Crosby Hall, London’, 1832, and nineteen more volumes related to municipal and city matters (23).
£50-80

Condition:
‘Guildhall’- endpapers and blanks replaced, spotting to plate margins and preliminaries, spine ends and tips repaired, with the bookplates of ‘Ronald Ryall’ and ‘Charles Frederick Angell’ to front pastedown and front-free endpaper; ‘Westminster Abbey’- rebacked in brown cloth, offsetting to title, contemporary gift inscription on initial blank; ‘Crosby Hall’- some loss to top of spine panel, ownership name of ‘John W. Dales’ inscribed on front pastedown.

Sold for £420