ON OFFER FOR AUCTION I HAVE A BOOK TITLED:

THE TRADE SIGNS OF ESSEX: A Popular Account of The Origin and Meanings of the Public & Other Signs Now or Formally Found in the County of Essex by Miller Christy.

The book is published by Edmund Durrant & Co, Chelmsford and Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh, London 1887. 1st edition.

EXAMPLE OF CONTENTS:

Heraldic Signs
Mammallian Signs
Botanical Signs
Human Signs
Nautical Signs
Astronomical Signs
Ornithological Signs
etc...

The books cover is green cloth boards with brown leather spine. The cover has some light surface shelf ware and light rubbing to the corners. Label to spine. Small light rubbing to the spine edges, otherwise the cover is in good condition. The hinges, inner boards and endpapers are in good order. There are labels and number tags to the inner boards and endpapers. Number on back of the title page. The book is nicely illustrated ( see pictures). There are 184 pages including the index. Other than the odd page having the odd thumb mark the pages are in good condition. The binding is tight and square.

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