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Scott, William B.
Antiquarian Gleanings in the North of England, being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc.
Publisher: George Bell, Fleet Street, London;
Date of Publication: 1851
Stock Code: 14920
Folio, pp., 18, plus 38 full-colour, tissue-guarded etchings. Collated and complete. Publisher’s forest green morocco-grain cloth, titled in gilt to spine, blind-stamped with floral geometric borders to boards. Former ownership inscription to front free end-paper. Spine rebacked, retaining original end-papers; shelf-wear to extremities; corners rubbed; a little light soiling to boards. Occasional spots of soiling to contents but plates generally clean, bright, and fresh. A solid, very well preserved copy. A substantial album of large, well-coloured etchings of antiquities from Northumberland, to County Durham, to Yorkshire, to Cumbria. The illustrations include Norman book bindings, the ‘ancient’ pulpit of Jarrow Church, seventeenth-century furniture from Corby Castle, and a number of artefacts in private hands. A substantial printed museum for the North of England. £125.00