FEARNSIDE, William Gray ; HARREL, Thomas. Holmes's Great Metropolis or Views and History of London in the Nineteenth Century: Being a Grand National Exhibition of the British Capital.. Thomas Holmes (Successor to Edward Lacey), London, 1851.

Price: US$78.37 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 211 pages, 50 fine steel engraved plates, including frontispiece and engraved title vignette, a good plus hardback, publisher's original blind stamped blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Both also have buildings drawn in gilt. All page edges are gold gilt & the book is well bound and square. Internally the book is extremely clean - there's a former owner's name on the ffep with an 1854 date. We downgraded from VG due to the extremities being rubbed and the spine a little faded. The top of the back hinge has also developed a small split in the cloth.

Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom

FEARNSIDE, William Gray. & HARREL, Thomas. (Edited by).. HOLMES'S GREAT METROPOLIS : Or, Views and History of London in the nineteenth century. Being a Grand National Exhibition of the British Capital.. Thomas Holmes, London. N.D. (circa 1851)., 1851.

Price: US$100.24 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 211pp, 50 steel engravings. A fair hardback copy in green decorative blind stamped cloth boards. Gilt vignette to front and gilt titled spine and edges. Board corners & spine ends are worn & frayed. Partially cracked hinge verso of title page. Binding sound. Previous owner's name to title & illustration page. Occasional marks & thumbing to contents.

Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia

Fearnside, William Gray; Harrel, Thomas. Holmes's Great Metrropolis or, Views and History of London in the Nineteenth Century. Thomas Holmes, London, 1851.

Price: US$115.45 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Full leather binding, rubbed with fading on the spine. Crest of Christ's Hospital on front cover and prize sticker dated 1857 inside. Contents are very good. Published c1851.

Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom

Fearnside, William Gray and Thomas Harrel; Browne, Hablot; Marshall, C.;Salmon, I (Illustrator). Holmes's Great Metropolis or Views and History of London in the Nineteenth Century; Being a Grand National Exhibition of the British Capital. Thomas Holmes, London, UK, 1851.

Price: US$139.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1851. Ex-Library, Usual Markings. No date. Brown binding cloth, gold decor. With fifty gorgeous steel engravings. Moderate general wear. Black tape on spine and border. Tape reinforced. Has bookplate. 211 pages. 6168

Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.

Fearnside, William Gray and Thomas Harrel (editors). HOLMES'S GREAT METROPOLIS: or, Views and History of London in the nineteenth Century. Being a Grand National Exhibition of the British Capital. With historical and topographical notices of each place. Edited by William Gray Fearneside, and Thomas Harrel. Illustrated with fifty splendid steel engravings.. Thomas Holmes, Great Book Establishment 1851 according to British Library, London, 1851.

Price: US$159.19 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Steel engraved plates (51) including engraved titlepage with large vignette view, some by Hablot Browne ( Phiz) as listed only 34 listed but 51 present. Narrow small quarto blue blindstamped and pictorially gilt cloth with spine extra gilt (1cm split to hinges at head and foot hinges) All Edges Gilt. Frontis +Engraved pictorial title + Printed title +Contents + 211pp. Lacks front free endpaper & has ownership stamp of St. Augustine's monastery to titlepage (slight offsetting to blank page facing) & to verso of final page which is blank except for stamp. Book plate of the Monastery to pastedown. Some pale foxing, mainly marginal else a bright tight crisp copy with very fine steel engravings. 1 volume.

Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books, Blockley, GLOS, United Kingdom

Fearnside, William Gray and Thomas Harrel. Holmes's Great Metropolis: or, Views and History of London in the Nineteenth Century. Being a grand national exhibition of the British capital with historical and topographical notices of each place. Thomas Holmes (Successor to Edward Lacey), London, 1851.

Price: US$265.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. No publication date, c. 1851. 8vo. Half calf over marble boards, 6 compartments, gilt decoration to spine, all edges gilt, marble endpapers. 50 fine steel engraved plates, including frontispiece and engraved title vignette. 211 pp. Contemporary ownership signature of G. P. Lascaridi, b. 1820 Prusa/Brusa, Asia Minor, d. 5 September, 1889 in Corfu, Greece/Hellenes, a merchant in London, insurance and discount agent, dealer and chapman. Brief genealogical statement laid in. Some of the steel engravings by Hablot Browne [pseud. Phiz] (1815-1882), For much of his life he signed his work Phiz, but on occasion in prints, and often in other media, he identified himself by his real initials or name, as he does in this book. Others, unsigned, still have very recognizable Dickens-like characters in the foreground. Some foxing, most engravings untouched. Rubbing to board at extremities. Very good.

Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.

LONDON. FEARNSIDE, William Gray and HARREL, Thomas (edit).. Holmes's Great Metropolis: or, Views and History of London in the Nineteenth Century. Being a Grand National Exhibition of the British Capital, With Historical and Topographical Notices of each place.. Thomas Holmes, London. [1851], 1851.

Price: US$352.76 + shipping

Description: First edition thus. First published, with 30 plates, as The History of London. Octavo. pp [iv], 212. 50 tissue-guarded steel engravings by Hablot Browne ("Phiz"), J.W. Allen, C. Marshall, J. Meadows etc. Original pale green gilt pictorial textured and patterned cloth, gilt decorated spine. All edges gilt. On the front pastedown is the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, pharmacist and book collector. Some light foxing to prelims. Inner hinges cracking. Spine a little bruised at head and a little rubbed at tail. Corners just a little bumped.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom