History of England, Volume best 1, 1847

The Pictorial History of England. Volume 1 only. Large volume with beautiful gilt spine decoration on leather and marbled boards. “A History of the People as well as a History of the Kingdom.” “Illustrated with many hundred wood cuts and one hundred illustrative portraits engraved on steel”. By George Craik and Charles Mac Farlane. Published by Charles Knight, London. Copyright 1847. Condition is VG.

Private collection sticker on beautifully marbled endpapers. Cover best hinge feels fragile but book can be read. Interiors pages are clean, well intact, flat without markings and only mild tanning. Tissue opposite portraits are tanned with imprint of the face of the individual. Upper right cover corner bumped. Front and rear cover boards pictured.

Begins with history of the British Islands; a History of Religion; History of Literature and Fine Arts; Civil and Military Transactions; Manners and Customs; Constitution, Government and Laws. Dates covered include 55 B.C. to the early 1300's.

889 pages, 10 x 7 x 3”