Author: John Richard Green; Mrs. J.R. Green and Miss Kate Norgate [ed]
Title: A Short History of the English People
Description: London, Macmillan and Co, 1902-1903 . Cloth. A smart illustrated edition of J. R. Green's detailed history of the English people, beautifully illustrated in colour throughout. Originally published in 1874, without illustrations, historian John Richard Green began work in 1869, having been given a diagnosis of six months to live. Intended to be an account 'not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People', Green was criticised at the time for the omission of major historical events such as battles.Illustrated with thirteen colour plates, included maps, to volume I. With nine plates to volume II, eight of which are in colour. Volume III illustrated with a folding colour frontispiece and five plates. Volume IV illustrated with three colour maps and one folding plate.Collated, complete, but with one plate detached and loosely inserted to volume IV, and lacking part of the folding plate to volume IV.With the armorial bookplate of Ernest A Taylor to each front pastedown, alongside the binder's label of G. Pulman & Sons.With an inscription to a front blank of each volume. In signed cloth bindings. Bumping to spine heads and tails. Damp staining to front board of volume I. Residue to head of volume IV front board. Front hinge of volume II strained. Bookplates and binders labels to front pastedowns. Inscriptions to a front endpaper of each volume. Internally, firmly bound. Light tide marks to page heads and tails throughout each volume. Damp staining resulting in discolouration to tail of pages 732-749 of volume II. Central leaves of volumes II and IV wrinkled throughout, due to damp. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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