(London) William Gaspey Tallis's Illustrated London; In Comm...

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(London) William Gaspey Tallis's Illustrated London; In Commemoration of the Great Exhibition of All Nations in 1851........ Volumes I and II. Volume I; original red cloth with ornate gilt decorations, split to rear hinge, rubbed to extremities, 76 plates showing 117 illustrations, good, John Tallis and Company, London and New York, [1851]. Volume II; original red cloth with ornate gilt decorations, chips and repairs to ends of back strip, gilt edge 40 plates with some showing two engravings, 68 illustrations in all, pp.160 if text to rear half, some spotting to plates, a very good copy, John Tallis and Company, London and New York, [1851]. (2)