History and Literature - Lord Birkenhead's Copy, Yonge (Char...

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£30 - £50

History and Literature - Lord Birkenhead's Copy, Yonge (Charles Duke), The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, two-volume set, Hurst and Blackett, Publisher's, London 1876, volume I with full-page portrait frontispiece of the ill-fated queen, contemporary blue-stained half-calf and marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers conforming, Armorial bookplate to each pastedown: Viscount Birkenhead [ the Conservative politician F.E. Smith, viscount from 1919 - 1922, then Earl Birkenhead], 12mo; Provincial Imprint, Burke (The Rt. Hon. Edmund), Reflections on the Revolution in France [...], Published by W. & T. Fordyce, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1841, engraved frontispiece and title-page, pp: vi, 348, Publisher's Catalogue [3], contemporary mauve cloth, 18mo; Carlyle (Thomas), The French Revolution: A History, Chapman & Hall, Ld, London [n.d., c. 1900], contemporary prize tree calf binding, gilt arms of Alleyne's Grammar School Stevenage and their presentation plate to pastedown, 12mo; A'Beckett (Gilbert Abbott) (sic), The Comic History of England, with Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Two Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech, two volumes bound as one, Bradbury, Evans, and Co., London [n.d., 1847 - 1848], rebacked contemporary calf and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Lang (Andrew), The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart, From Abbotsford and Milton Lockhar MSS. and other Original Sources, two-volume set, John C. Nimmo, London 1897, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (2); further full calf prize bindings gilt, various, (3); [10]