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Mackenzie, E.
A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, including the Borough of Gateshead [2 volume set].
 
Publisher: Mackenzie and Dent, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Date of Publication: 1827
Stock Code: 5070
 
FIRST EDITION. Two volume set. Small folio. Vol I x, 414 pp; Vol II [2], pp 415- 780, [2] Plate Index & Corrections. 15 pp plates as called for of which 8 full page, with the addition of an extra plate of Andersion Place as frontispiece to Vol II. Book Condition: Very Good. Half red calf with five raised bands; gilt titles and decoration to spine and gilt ruling to corners. Aeg; primrose yellow endpapers and green silk placemarkers. Spines lightly sunned; wear to corners and a few small bumps to edge. Boards and edges scuffed. Scattered foxing & offsetting; creasing to free endpapers Vol I. No annotation or inscriptions; small leather armorial bookplate of Eric Sexton to front pastedowns.
 
The two volumes are commonly bound as one; this set is presented as the publishers intended with the division as recommended at p 414. An excellent set.
 
£400.00
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