A Short History of the English People. J R Green (4 vols) Fine Leather Bindings

A Short History of the English People. J R Green (4 vols) Fine Leather BindingsA SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE By J. R. Green Published by Macmillan & Co, London, 1892. Complete in Four Volumes. Fine half leather bindings. Marble endpapers. Gilt to top edges. pp cvi, 1906pp. Illustrated with coloured and b&w plates, with a large folding plate at frontispiece of vol III showing Old London Bridge. CONDITION Very good clean set. The leather bindings are in very good clean condition with the leather remaining in good condition

Small name written to front endpaper

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(Location : Cabinet 3

Adam Smith

Published by David and Charles

The attractive plates include an illustration of the extinct Great Auk

and spent several years as a draftsman in Germany

All contents present including all 12 tipped-in plates

To ignore them would rob the chronicle of a measure of human warmth that must be helpful in interpreting the times

Volume II: The Western Margin and the Core

"Brady's share in the work was sneered at by Swift in his Remarks on Dr

red cloth with gilt title