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1892 A Hand-Book of the Orders of Chivalry
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition of this work.
With a chromolithographic title page, and thirty-one plates, twenty-nine of which are chromolithographs. Collated, complete.
A fascinating reference work detailing the medals and crosses, and their clasps and ribbons, from Charles Norton Elvin who also authored 'A Dictionary of Heraldry'.
With the bookplates of William Wordie and Edward Roger to the front pastedown.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright, with back strip age toned, and with small losses to back strip head and tail. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, binding tender due to gutta percha, with majority of leaves detached, as is common with this work. Pages clean and bright.
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