HISSEY, James John.  A Tour in a Phaeton through the Eastern Counties, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1889. 8° (215 x 138mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 15 plates by the author. (A few short tears, some very light mainly marginal spotting.) Contemporary scarlet half morocco gilt by Morrell of London, spine gilt in compartments, top edges gilt.
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HISSEY, James John. A Tour in a Phaeton through the Eastern Counties, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1889. 8° (215 x 138mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 15 plates by the author. (A few short tears, some very light mainly marginal spotting.) Contemporary scarlet half morocco gilt by Morrell of London, spine gilt in compartments, top edges gilt.

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HISSEY, James John. A Tour in a Phaeton through the Eastern Counties, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1889. 8° (215 x 138mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 15 plates by the author. (A few short tears, some very light mainly marginal spotting.) Contemporary scarlet half morocco gilt by Morrell of London, spine gilt in compartments, top edges gilt.

With 8 other travel books by James John Hissey including On the Box Seat from London to Land's End (London, 1886), Across England in a Dog-Cart (London, 1891) and Over Fen and Wold (London, 1898), uniformly-bound in scarlet half morocco gilt. (9)
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