The biographical treasury : a dictionary of universal biography / by Samuel Maunder
1870, New Edition. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Good library copy only in the original full leather, with raised spine bands and an armorial motif to front board, both gilt-tooled. Library markings: labels to board and pastedown, embossed stamp to flyleaf. Front hinge broken, crudely repaired with modern tape. Marbling to endpapers and (now faded) to text edges. Faint foxing to prelims, with text otherwise tight, bright and clean. Frontispiece with its tissue guard. An internally very well preserved copy. Item #455344
Physical description; 1154 pages : illustrations, frontispiece ; 18 cm. Notes; In double columns. Includes publisher's lists and index. Subjects; Biography - Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 19th century.
Price: €45.00