Memoirs of the House of Medici, From Its Origin to the Death of Francesco, the Second Grand Duke of Tuscany, and of the Great Men Who Flourished in Tuscany Within that Period. From the French of Mr. Tenhove, with Notes and Observations, By Sir Richard Clayton, Bart. Bath: Printed by S. Hazard; for G. Gi and J. Robinson, MDCCXCVII (1797).
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Provenance:
Armorial bookplate of "Sir John Smith, Bart."
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"Bound by John Shipp, Blandford."
Size: 226 x 285 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[half title, frontis, t.p., 1ff. (dedication), 4pp. (preface), 1ff., 443pp.]; [t.p., 525pp., 9pp., 1pp.]
Half brown calf over marbled paper backed boards. Bindings lightly rubbed and scuffed with some loss to marbled paper on boards. All boards attached with joints and hinges starting/cracked. Shelf and edge wear. Some loss of leather to the head of volume two. Marbled page edges dulled. Bookplate and binder's sticker attached to front pastedown in both volumes. Top fragment of pp.1/2 lacking, with no loss of text. Text block very clean with occasional foxing. Frontispiece transferred onto title page opposite with some toning and foxing.
[OCLC 3464661].
