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Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1914
Seller: Morocco Books and Collectibles, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. E.A. Wilson, Herbert G. Ponting, et.al. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Two volumes, royal octavo; hardcover, full red calf with gilt rules to the boards, gilt upper board decorations, gilt spine decorations and titles on morocco labels between five raised bands and marbled endpapers; 1,170pp. [636pp. + 534pp.], all edges marbled, with eighteen colour plates, eleven double page monochrome panorama plates, 178pp. of monochrome plates and ten maps (some folding). Mild wear; boards and spines a bit rubbed; text block top edges a little dusted; top hinge of Volume I. cracked (but strong); school prize bookplate to the front pastedown of Vol. I.; previous owner's contemporary ink inscriptions to the first blank page of each volume; some loose signatures and plates (now professionally repaired using archival quality materials); some minor spotting to the preliminaries. Very good.