Author: Major James Bell
Title: A View of Universal History, Literature, and the Several Schools of Painting
Description: London, T. C. Hansard; Robert Baldwin, 1842. Leather. An impressive and unique reference work, presenting world history through a series of coloured tables. An impressive reference work, presenting detailed information on universal history, literature,and different schools of painting through a series of illuminated chronological tables.Complete with twenty-five tables. The tables in this volume trace history from the earliest records up to 1842. Tables included are 'Golden Period of Roman Monarchy', 'Triumphs of the British and the Allied in the Peninsula', 'Consequences of the French Revolution', 'Literature of the Latest Centuries', and more.Twenty-four of the tables have the original hand-coloured highlighting, as called for. By Major James Bell of the East York Militia.The fifth edition. In the original publisher's half calf binding with cloth to the boards, rebacked. Externally, leather is a little worn, with rubbing and loss, and lifting to the spine. Minor rubbing and marks to the cloth, and a small patch of lifting to the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with a few scattered spots. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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