Author: MUIRHEAD, JAMES PATRICK, M.A. EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR
Title: The Vaux-De-Vire of Maistre Jean Le Houx, Advocate of Vire
Description: London, John Murray. 1875. Ill.: J W Whymper. Hardback 155mm x 240mm tall. Pp lxxiii, 262 + portrait frontis. 6 plates with wood- engravings of scenes in Vire and its environs executed by J.W. Whymper from drawings made by Lionel B.C.L. Muirhead, + a similarly executed Emblematic Device of a shield suspended from apple-tree, the armorial bearings of the town of Vire, all eight plates having tissue-guards. Pages printed on mould-made paper, uncut. Top edges slightly dusty, otherwise a very good, tight copy, recently recased with new tan endpapers in the original blind-ruled, bevelled-edge brown cloth-covered boards/red-on-brown heraldic decoration to front board, with the somewhat darkened and worn spine cloth [with gilt title] laid-down.

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