Gog and Magog: The Giants in Guildhall; Their Real and Legendary History. With an Account of Other Civic Giants, at Home and Abroad
London: John Camden Hotten, 1859. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. Very Good. Item #002582
xii, 152 p.p. Six B&W plates + colour frontis, and three additional in-text illustrations by the author. Pictorial stamped green cloth boards with gilt titling. A few stains to boards, rubbing and bumping to spine ends, fore edge and corners. Minimal foxing to interior. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Hinge cracking, but binding remains tight. An essay on the mythological purpose of giants, as sculpture, in European town halls.
Price: $125.00
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