People, Places and Things

4 volumes. First editions 1954.

Find bindings by Hiscox., London.

Bookplate of B. Y. McPeake on inside.

Full-green leather with gilt lineal borders.

Gilt raised bands, gilt titles and gilt date to spine.

Gilt top page-block.

Colour pictorial endpapers.

Volume I.

PEOPLE.

The Good, Bad, Great & Eccentric who illustrate

the admirable diversity of man.

[10], 469, [1] pages.

Colour endpapers of Bonaparte Crossing the Alps at Mount St Bernard 1800.

16 full-page colour plates.

Full-page b & w plates.

Volume II.

PLACES.

Travel in Space and Time. Places which have

delighted intrigued and intimidated men.

[10], 464, [1] pages.

Colour endpapers of The Bucentaur at The Piazzetta by Canalette (1697-1768).

16 full-page colour plates.

Full-page b & w plates.

12 full-page maps.

Volume III.

THINGS.

The Origin and early History of many things,

common and less common, essential and inessential.

[13], 466 pages.

Colour endpapers of a cabinet, 150 years old, filled with miniature figures and

objects in 'The Bears', Suniswald, Switzerland.

16 full-page colour plates.

Full-page b & w plates.

1 full-page map.

In-text illustrations.

Volume IV.

IDEAS.

Ideas, Living, Dying, Dead & Fossil, which we are

moved by or where moved by.

[10], 470 pages.

Colour endpapers of The School of Athens by Raphael.

16 full-page colour plates.

Full-page b & w plates.

Recorded shipping weight 7000g

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