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Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Leech, John] A Beckett, Gilbert Abbott The Comic History of England
London: Bradbury, Evans, no date (ca. 1850s-60s). Reprint. 8vo. xviii, 320; 304 pp. Illustrated with engraved color frontispiece, 19 engraved color plates, and numerous in-text wood-engraved illustrations, by John Leech. Three-quarter leather, stamped in blind and in gilt, over marbled paper-covered boards, extremities lightly worn; all edges gilt; ownership signature on first free leaf; foxing to prelims; title-page lightly soiled; scattered spotting to text; annotations in bottom margins of pp. 99/100 in book V; repair to top corner of pp. 303/304 in book VIII; scattered light spotting and short closed tears to plates.