Author: GILMAN. ARTHUR.
Title: THE SARACENS. From the earliest of times to the fall of Bagdad.
Description: T. Fisher Unwin. London. No date. Circa 1916. FOURTH EDITION. Originally published in 1887. 8vo, (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with 2 folding maps and 60 mono plates of views, portraits, plans, and maps, both full page and smaller vignettes within the text. Finely bound in contemporary full tree calf binding. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. The compartments fully decorated and ruled in gilt. Green morocco title label, gilt. Decorative gilt border on boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Neat five line school prize inscription, from The Old College, Windermere, and dated 1916, to the front blank free endpaper. The binding isn't signed but is certainly the work of a master binder. A fine copy in a fine, highly decorative, tree calf binding.

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