A Handy-Book of the British Museum for Every-Day Readers

by Thomas Nichols

$100 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 426 pp. Green cloth with blind gold stamped design on front cover and spine. Decorated page edges. Front- and back board held in place by clear plastic crudely taped over spine. Age wear and staining to binding. Two-inch piece of backstrip on head of spine missing. Marbled decorative endpapers. Ex-libris of St. John's Collegiate School Richmond

• Binding: Hardcover

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