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The Lincoln Crest and Monogram Album
William S Lincoln
c1894
William Lincoln : London
8.5" by 7"
[40] [36pp]
SUMMARY
A colourfully illustrated, late nineteenth-century crest and monogram album, intended to be filled with crests by the owner.
Colour Plates,Early Edition,Illustrated,Publishers Original Binding
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs0.5 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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DESCRIPTION
A late Victorian crest and monogram book.
In late nineteenth-century England, crest and monogram collecting was a popular hobby. Several publishers issued attractively illustrated albums for collectors to paste and display their crests and monograms.
This album was printed circa 1894 by William Lincoln and contains forty colourfully illustrated unused pages, ready for the modern collector to paste their own collection of crests. Containing four hundred and seventy-seven unused spaces for pasting crests and monograms.
Also containing seven loosely inserted crests and monograms, ready for pasting in the album.
The third edition of this work.
Containing thirty-six pages of publishers adverts to the rear.
CONDITION
In the publishers original cloth binding. Externally, sound, with some shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Some spots and marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Some light offsetting to the endpapers, and slight age-toning to the pages, which are otherwise clean throughout.
Overall Condition: Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
We only sell books in this condition where their rarity or value makes them
attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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