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Two Great Rivals (Francois I. and Charles V.) and The Women Who Influenced Them. With Twenty-One Illustrations Including a Photogravure Plate. [Baytun Signed Binding]

Haggard, Andrew C.P. · London

Author
Haggard, Andrew C.P.
Date
c1910
Place
London
Publisher
Hutchinson & Co.
Language
English
Binding
8vo.(5.5" x 8.5") Baytun Signed Binding. Half red leather with corners, bright gilt rule to leather edges, over red cloth boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to second compartment, gilt author to fourth, gilt year at foot. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, title page in red and black. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips, leather lightly scuffed at extremities. Boards professionally rehinged at some point, barely noticable. Illustrated with frontispiece and 20 additional plates. Overall, a beautiful book with great shelf presence.
Category
History & Americana
Record
S.I.8204

8vo.(5.5" x 8.5") c1910. London: Hutchinson & Co. Baytun Signed Binding. Half red leather with corners, bright gilt rule to leather edges, over red cloth boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to second compartment, gilt author to fourth, gilt year at foot. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, title page in red and black. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips, leather lightly scuffed at extremities. Boards professionally rehinged at some point, barely noticable. Illustrated with frontispiece and 20 additional plates. Overall, a beautiful book with great shelf presence. Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Charles Parker Haggard (1854–1923) was a British army officer and writer, best known for his historical and biographical works focusing on French history. He was the older brother of the renowned novelist Sir Henry Rider Haggard.

Condition

Very Good

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