True Stories From Ancient History; Chronologically Arranged from the Creation of the World to the Death of Charlemagne

by Maria Elizabeth Budden, William Henry Brooke

$3,750 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

Boston: J. Harris and Son, 1822. First Edition. 2 vols., small 6mo 167 × 107mm , 2 , viii, 195, 1 , with 37 inserted plates; vi , 192, with 35 inserted plates. First illustrated edition, preceded by an unillustrated first edition of 1819 and one reprint. Full straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt double-rule border, gilt and blind frames containing a repeating floral and geometric pattern, spine with raised

• Binding: Leather

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