The History of England. Written in French by M. Rapin de Thoyras. Translated Into English, with Additional Notes, by N. Tindal, M.A., Rector of Alverstoke, in Hampshire, and Chaplain of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. Illustrated with Maps, Genealogical Tables, and the Heads and Monuments of the Kings. The Fourth Edition, Corrected. London: Printed, by Assignment from Mr. Knapton, for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, et al., MDCCLVII (1757).
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Size: 134 x 211 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
Volumes 1 through to 21 consecutively, complete. Full calf bindings with red tooled labels in compartments to the spines between raised bands, other compartments with decorative gilt. Some tooled labels lacking. Gilt to spines dulled. One tooled label has been historically replaced with a label from another set of a similar period. Bindings rubbed and scuffed with some scratches and leather peeling in places at extremities, with few minor losses. Attached boards with cracked joints and hinges, thus fragile. Rear board of volume 14 mostly detached, attached at a single point, very fragile. Fragments of an old sale lot number sticker attached to the front board of volume 20. Some boards warped, some more prominently. Shelf and edge wear. Slight shelf lean to some volumes. Some headcaps and tailcaps damaged or lacking. Page edges dulled. Bookplate attached to front pastedown in all volumes. Text blocks lightly toned with sporadic foxing. Some inactive old mould to volume one, and to a few leaves in some of the other volumes. Minor wormholing to a few volumes. Endpapers foxed with some tears and small losses. Uncollated.
*Not every condition detail is mentioned or photographed due to the large number of volumes present in this set. The condition description and photographs are illustrative of the general condition of the set.
