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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. Londina Illustrata: Graphic and Histor...

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. Londina?Illustrata: Graphic and Historic Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools... London: Wilkinson, 1819, 1825. 2 volumes, folio. Illustrated with engraved title-pages and 204 plates (several of which are double-page), one plate in volume I has some hand-color and another is tinted. Contemporary half green straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt (binding worn, soiled, boards detached, spines loose, library markings on spines and occasionally in text, some gutters cracked, text and plates somewhat toned, some offsetting from plates, with occasional wear, foxing). A beautifully illustrated tour of London?s most interesting buildings and monuments of the early nineteenth-century.