Bindings. Green (J.R.), A Short History of the English Peopl...

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£100 - £150

Bindings. Green (J.R.), A Short History of the English People, Illustrated Edition, four volume set, London: Macmillan and Co., 1892-1903, maps, full-page and in-text illustrations, finely bound in contemporary quarter-vellum gilt over cloth, 8vo; Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars of England, seven volume set, first edition thus, Oxford: University Press, 1839, half-titles, Durham School armorial prize bindings of tan calf gilt, rubbed and further wear, marbled edges and endpapers, 12mo; White (Henry Kirke, of Nottingham), Clifton Grove, A Sketch in Verse, with Other Poems, first edition, London: N. Biggs, 1803, lacking all after page 102, finely bound in early 20th c half-morocco over marbled boards, all edges gilt, 8vo; five further works by the Romantic poet, including T. Allman's 1839 edition illustrated by naive wood engravings, original cloth, uncut, 8vo, the others mixed dates, bindings and sizes; The Cottager's Monthly Visitor, volumes II-VII: 1822-27, [&] The Cottage Magazine, volumes XVI-XVII: 1827-28, general and divisional titles, some illustrations, uniformly bound in quarter-calf over marbled boards, later lettering pieces, 12mo in 6s; Lord Dover's Frederic II, King of Prussia, second edition, 1833, 8vo; etc., (28)