Description
Up for sale is this antique 1789 copy of, "The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its Medicinal Waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood. The curios remains of the antiquity. Elegant buildings. Ornamented grounds, and other singular productions of nature and art." The book is overall in good condition with signs of wear and age. The covers have some moderate scuffing and wear. The outer leather joints are heavily cracked and some of the binding cords look like they are broken, but the binding of the book is still holding & sound. The front pastedown has some penciled writing and evidence of bookplate removal. There is about an inch long tear to the front fep near the top of the hinge with a very small spot or two of old dried glue. The interior of the book is generally nice and clean with just some very occasional scattered light foxing & grubbiness. Along with that, there may be the very occasional page with some kind of other minor imperfection such as a minor stain, light wrinkle, creased page corner, tiny chip or tear, etc. The book is a fairly small volume; it measures approximately 6 1/4 inches by 3 3/4 inches and is 330 pages long. It is nicely illustrated with a hand colored folding map, 7 black and white plates, and a few other black and white in text illustrations. Please look at all the photos to further note the condition.
user2951217b
This book is PERFECT! Absolutely beautiful. Pictures along with description were fantastic. Packaging was phenomenal. Fastest shipping ever!!! I can’t even begin to tell of the immense quality of this item which in turn made this an unbelievable value! Kudos to this seller!!
DWilsf247eaf
5 STARS ALL THE WAY! Amazing piece so clean and just as pictured! Very fast shipping and the packaging was so extremely well done that I don't think anything could have damaged it no matter what! I'm impressed and will definitely shop here again! Thanks!
Ken C493ae5c
Packaged well. Shipped quickly. Item was just as described. I paid $6.50 for each piece of paper to be shipped to me (ordered two). So, it was $13 to ship two pieces of paper in an envelope. That is the only thing I was disappointed in.