[publisher: Seeley & Co. ninth thousand, London] color plates (16) mainly of Egyptian, Persian and Scythians frescoes. BINDING olive green cloth with red and gilt pictorial decorations (edges worn/head & foot of spine somewhat chipped/spine sunned/small black mark to cover/lower cover with scratches & cuts to the plain olive cloth) xii + 299pp + [8pp} +16 pages of publisher's catalogues with illustrations. Half title with ownership of Edith F. Moggridge Xmas /'95. Some pale foxing to first few and last few text pages and two openings with browning where papers were laid in. A very few isolated foxing or signs of use but generally nice, clean and tight. 1 volume.
[Blockley, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1891]

[publisher: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, London] Hardcover Reprint, 1881. Very Good. 8vo., 299 pp., with 16 colored images including frontispiece. Bound in full navy calf binding with five raised bands, gilt tooling to spine, gilt school blind stamp to front board, marbled end papers and text edge. Prize binding from the King Edward School in Norwich, dated 1884. Small binders stamp inside rear cover - Fletcher, Norwich. Spine is slightly darkened, edges and tips rubbed, text edges rubbed and finger soiled, previous owners signature on end paper.
[Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1881]
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Seely, Jackson and Halliday Fleet Street, Date: 1881. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bookplate from a previous owner. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. No edition stated. Publication of 299 pages. Leather, 5 raised bands. Bright gold gilt page edges. With gilt to the spine and decoration on the front of the book. Frontispiece in color. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is light foxing on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The text remains bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. 1881. Seely, Jackson and Halliday Fleet Street [ZA]

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 0365290963 9780365290964 [US]