The History of Greece by William Mitford, Esq. With His Final Additions and Corrections. To Which is Prefixed, a Brief Memoir of the Author, by His Brother, the Late Lord Redesdale. Carefully Revised by William King. London: Printed for T. Cadell, and W. Blackwood and Sons. MDCCCXXXVIII (1838).
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Provenance:
Leather and gilt bookplate inscribed "Ricardo. O. Turner Tironi Bene Merenti Scholae Exoniensis Emeriti Ingenii Feliciter Exculti Praemium Dederunt Die VI To Ante Kal. Octobres A. D. 1843" (To Ricardo O. Turner, a well-deserving student of Exeter School, who has successfully cultivated his talents, they awarded a prize on the 6th day before the Kalends of October in the year 1843).
Size: 145 x 216 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[i-xlviii, 511pp. 1pp.]; [i-viii, 522pp.]; [i-viii, 494pp.]; [i-vii, 1pp., 456pp.]; [title, v-xi, 482pp.]; [title, v-xi, 477pp., 1pp.]; [i-viii, 554pp.]; [i-vii, 1pp., 584pp.]
Spines lightly rubbed. All tooled labels present with minor scuffing. Tooled labels of volume two with some loss. Wear to heads of spines. All boards attached with rubbed joints and very minor wear to hinges. Boards with minor rubbing and marks. Damp stain to the rear board of volume five. Minor shelf and edge wear. Volume one with prominent shelf and edge wear. Corners rubbed and worn. Minor dulling to page edges and more prominent dulling to the top page edges. Bookplate attached to the front pastedown in volume one, and is partially detached at the bottom left corner. Text blocks very clean with light toning and very sporadic very minor foxing.
[OCLC 2420009].
