The History of France From The Earliest Times To The Year 1789 (Five Volumes)

Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1872. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jackets. 1872-1876. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, London. Five Volumes, complete. Volume 1 published in 1872; following volumes in consecutive years through 1876. No edition stated. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Half bound (spine, part of the boards, and corners) in tan leather over hand-marbled boards with gilt spine lettering and decorations. Marbling is in red, blue, and white, in a French curl on comb pattern. All page edges marbled. Spine title: "History of France". Title on green leather panel; author and volume on brown panel. Tissued frontispiece in each. Black and white illustrations. Fold-out color map in volume 1. Index in volume 5. Last volume published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Bindings tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Leather and paper coverings worn at corners, edges, and spine ends, with boards exposed at tips on some volumes. Fore edges of boards have a few nicks. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed. Small gilt imprinted green leather bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Small pencil notation on verso of front free endpaper of vol. 1. Scratch on spine title panel on vol. 3. Pages clean and unmarked. 617 + 632 + 626 + 626 + 593 pages. Translated by Robert Black. Half title: "The History of France Related for the Rising Generation." Gilbert and Rivington, Printers, St. John's Square, London. No dust jackets. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. This item will be shipped with signature confirmation required.