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London: G. Virtue. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1873?. Softcover. Specific condition issues: Part 1 lacking wrappers, first plate is damp stained and torn. Part 2 lower wrapper detached but present. Part 6 with pieces missing from final four pages and lower wrapper. Part 44 lacking one engraving. Generally slight foxing to the plates. ; 50 parts in original wrappers. All parts present. Each part with two steel engravings. Unbound, meant to be bound into three volumes. At the end of Part 50 are two title pages, a half title, separate contents pages, etc for volumes 1, 2, and 3. "Subscription copy." "This is the only unabridged edition of the works of these standard historians published in a periodical form." .

London: Printed for R. Scholey ... Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ... B. Crosby & Co. ... London ; and J. Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh, 1810. 1810-1811. Printer named in colophon ; v. 1-2, 5-6 printed by Ballantyne, v. 3-4 by Thomas Davison, London. V. 3-4 have different titlepage including the information "from Thurston's designs."(Worldcat). Scholey's large-type edition, large paper Russia extra, with engravings on copper and wood. A RARE edition, finely bound in contemporary diced calf, the backs with two ornate gilt cross decorations and two polished calf labels gilt, the covers with double gilt rules bordering blindtooled arabesques, that bordering intricate gilt stamped floral decorations, and four blindtooled floral decorations in corners marbled end papers and edges. Overall Near Fine, small rubs at corners and spine tips, some toning associated mainly with plates and at end pages, the interiors lovely and clean. A quite readable set, delightfully bound. A heavy set, please… Leer más