Small 4to. (25.5x17.5cm), (iv) + 84 pages + 8 pages of adverts all of local Croydon businesses + 10 full page plates and many other illustrations within the text. A few spots of foxing, the brown endpapers a little faded. Bound in the original red cloth binding, the title etc. in gilt on the front cover. The cover somewhat marked, rubbed on the corners, the spine worn and frayed at the top and bottom, the cloth split on the front hinge for most of its length and the cloth on the rear hinge split for about 6cm. Read more about this item about Corbet Anderson, J. Antiquities of Croydon Church, Destroyed by Fire, January 5th, 1867.
The Contendings of the Apostles, Volume 2 The English Translation
London, Henry Froude, 1901.
Early Ethiopic Christian texts translated by, this volume containing the entire translation: the first volume contained the original texts.
29x19cm, xvi + 736 pages. Good clean ex-library copy, with a number of library stamps on the front endpapers, including a ‘Withdrawn’ stamp. A blind stamp on a corner of the title page and on a few other pages. The last page with a tear in the blank margin. Read more about this item about Ethiopic Christian texts, translated into English
Small 8vo. (15x7cm), xxiv pages + the words of 1138 hymns + index and ‘List of Works.’ Some foxing (never obscuring the text) to the first couple of leaves and the last leaf. Creasing in the corner of the first few leaves, and a gray mark in the corner of one of them. A few other pages with small creases and marks.Read more about this item about Hymns: Beautifully Bound, published in 1865 Edited by William Gadsby
Paris, A. Messein, 1905.
24x15.5 cm. 108 pages. The pages rather browned. A small piece missing from the blank before the title page and a small mark in the margin of one illustration.
Bound in red half-leather with matching marbled paper on the boards, the title etc. in gold on the spine. The leather somewhat rubbed, particularly at the head of the spine, with some loss of the red surface. The front end paper cracked at the hinge, so that the cover is coming loose. The original wrapped bound-in. Read more about this item about Huysmans J.-K. Trois Primitifs
