Author: James E. Doyle
Title: A Chronicle of England: B.C. 55-A.D. 1485
Description: London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this strikingly illustrated history of England by artist and antiquary, James E. Doyle. The first edition. In the publisher's elaborately decorated cloth binding. A comprehensive chronicle of England's history, 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. An impressive work of Victorian colour printing is demonstrated here, with the author's own illustrations adorning the work throughout, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Collated, complete with eighty-one colour illustrations throughout the text. With a charming contemporary inscribed note tipped in to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Externally, smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities, heaviest to the spine head and tail. Slight fading to the spine. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd spots. Offsetting to the endpapers. With a tipped in contemporary note to the front free endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: James E. Doyle; Edmund Evans. Very Good .

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