Author: James E. Doyle
Title: A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485
Description: London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this beautifully illustrated history of England. First edition. Illustrated with eighty-one colour illustrations throughout the text. Collated complete. Written initially as a historic exercise as a simple and continuous narrative of the principal events in English history, this work became a detailed and comprehensive chronicle of the history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of Richard III. Written and illustrated by James William Edmund Doyle, a British historian, antiquarian, and illustrator. He was the eldest son of John Doyle, brother of Richard Doyle, Henry Edward Doyle and Charles Altamont Doyle, and the uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing to the extremities resulting in small splits in the cloth to the board tips. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss to the cloth at the head of the spine. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot or handling mark. Age toning to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. Very Good . Ill.: James E. Doyle. Very Good .
Keywords: Chronicle England Doyle England James E. Doyle
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Title: A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485
Description: London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this beautifully illustrated history of England. First edition. Illustrated with eighty-one colour illustrations throughout the text. Collated complete. Written initially as a historic exercise as a simple and continuous narrative of the principal events in English history, this work became a detailed and comprehensive chronicle of the history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of Richard III. Written and illustrated by James William Edmund Doyle, a British historian, antiquarian, and illustrator. He was the eldest son of John Doyle, brother of Richard Doyle, Henry Edward Doyle and Charles Altamont Doyle, and the uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing to the extremities resulting in small splits in the cloth to the board tips. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss to the cloth at the head of the spine. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot or handling mark. Age toning to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. Very Good . Ill.: James E. Doyle. Very Good .
Keywords: Chronicle England Doyle England James E. Doyle
Price: GBP 495.00 = appr. US$ 706.85 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 905T74
- Book number: 905T74
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