Author: Walford, Edward [1823 - 1897]
Title: CHAPTERS From FAMILY CHESTS. In Two Volumes
Description: London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1887. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth bindings with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Bevelled boards. Brown coated eps. vi, 320; vi, 318 pp. Crown 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/8". Square & tight. Spines ever so slightly darkened. Bookplate remnants to front paste-downs. Withal, a VG - VG+ set. Walford was a British magazine editor and a compiler of educational, biographical, genealogical and touristic works, who herein offers such chapters as "The Bad Lord Byron", "Wealthy Sir John Duck, Bart.", "A Romance of the House of Audley", "Jack of Newbury", "The Hon. Mrs. Damer", "Bess of Hardwicke", "Old Lady Cork", etc, etc.

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