Author: McCarthy, Justin / Mccarthy, Justin Huntly
Title: A HISTORY OF THE FOUR GEORGES AND OF WILLIAM IV. Complete 5 volume set.
Description: Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1885. 1st edition. halfcloth gilt title and decoration spine. Serie: Collection of British Authors by Bernhard Tauchnitz. Vol 1: 1885, 358 pp. - Vol 2: 1890, 351 pp. - Vol 3: 1901, 303 pp. - Vol 4: 1901287 pp. - Vol 5: 1901, 278 pp. Justin McCarthy (1830-1912) was a journalist and novelist whose major work History of Our Own Times (1878) was an enormously popular account of Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria, written from a Liberal point of view. McCarthy began publishing History of the Four Georges and William IV in 1884, but failing eyesight and ill health forced him to hand the work over to his son for completion. 12 x 16 cm. Covers show some edgewear. Pages slightly tanned. Otherwise nice and clean copies.

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