The Comic History of England

by Gilbert Abbot À Beckett

$350 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, c.1855 . 8vo, 2 vols. in 1: xviii, 320; 304 pp. Title-page printed in black and red, complete with 10 hand-colored steel engravings and numerous in-text wood engravings in each volume, including frontispieces. Full tan crushed morocco, all edges gilt, with original backstrip and upper panel of cloth binding preserved on rear pastedowns. Gift inscription dated 1878 on half title. Binding lightly scuffed and marked, faint shadow of bookplate

• Binding: Hardcover

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