Author: Knight, Charles
Title: The Land We Live in: A Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire, Volume 1
Description: London, England, Charles Knight, 1848. Hardcover. green boards w/ debossed tiling & flower designs; gilt emblem. debossed spine designs & gilt printing. 368 pgs w/ bw illusrations. Light tanning to page edges. Pages appear free of the usual library notations/marginalia/defacement. Lovely illustrations. Good (ex-library w/ white marker ID to lower spine; pencil IDs to title pgs. square, ex-libirs plate to corner cover pastedown. front pastedown/hinge cracked but binding mull undamaged; back pastedown/hinge cracked half-through; both hinges rattled. textblock split; firm w/ intact pgs. foxing to upper & lower edges of pgs; primarily to upper edge w/ speckled foxing ranging from light to dark) .

Keywords: British History, History of the British Empire ; British History, History of the British Empire ; ;