Antique Victorian Leather Book Annals St Pauls Cathedral 1868 Milman

ANNALS
OF
ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL

By Henry Hart Milman D.D.
Late Dean Of St Paul's

London
John Murray, Albemarle Street
1868
(First Edition)

The book measures approx, 14.5cm by 22cm and contains 533 marble edged pages with a portrait frontis and a further fourteen, full page illustrations and plans.
There is also an additional plate, not mentioned in the list of illustrations opposite page 474, featuring the Tomb of Sir Christopher Wren.

The text block is tightly bound.
The pages are generally free of foxing although foxing is present around the endpapers, an occasional illustrated plate and titles.

The front pastedown bears a "Fanshaws" family book plate.
The book is from the collection of Constance Demain Saunders.*

The half leather bindings have some edge wear , some rubbing to the spine fascia and a small (approx 1cm) split to the top of the front joint.
The binding is solid and firm.

*Fanshaws in Hertford is a large house built by Constances father, Henry Wilson Demain Saunders, around 1885. The house is now the property of the Institute of the motor industry.

Please take a look at the photos as they form part of the description.

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