LONDON, YOUNG AND WHITELY, 1819. COMPLETE IN FOUR VOLUMES, FULL LEATHER, RECASED WITH NEW SPINES USING COMTEMPORARY BOARDS. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF JOHN ARDEN, VERY SMALL LABEL OF BATTLE ABBEY, SITE OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS. A TOTAL OF 156 PLATES (A COUPLE MISSING AND SEVERAL PRESENT AND NOT CALLED FOR). A VERY NICE CLEAN AND HANDSOME SET (YELLOWING… Read more about this item

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Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons

by James Caulfield

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Used - Fair

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First Edition

Published

1819

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3/4 brown leather and marbled boards with gilt titles and designs on spines

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These rare volumes contatin portraits and short biographies of persons of notoriety in 17th and 18th century Britiain, including highwaymen, convicts, preachers, misers, beggars, aristocrats, murderers, rebels, etc. Each entry has an engaved plate of the individual. Marbled boards are intact but scuffed, rubbed and soiled so as to obscure most of the marbling. End pages are still beautifully marbled. However… Read more about this item