THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME - FROM THE FOUNDING OF THE CITY TO THE END OF THE COMMONWEALTH - ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN LEECH.

GILBERT ABBOTT A. BECKETT. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN LEECH

Published by BRADBURY, AGNEW & CO. (NO PUBLICATION DATE, PROBABLY CIRCA 1860.

About this Item

This lovely amusing, maroon coloured hardback book, with gilt title and image impressions, is in reasonable condition. Normal wear and marks apply consistent with age and use. No Jacket. The cover is worn at the corner edges, spine faded, lovely gilt to endpapers. Personal pen inscription, dated 1882 on first page. Between the end of the Engravings on Wood page and the start of page 1 (Chapter the First) the binding has loosened from the base to two-thirds of the way up, so you can see gauze, and between page 64 and 65 the pages have come away from binding otherwise all other pages intact. 308 pages, all text and illustrations in good, readable order. Ten, beautiful, decorative steel engravings and host of engravings on wood. A humourous book, and worth preserving for the home library.

Seller Inventory # 494

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME - FROM THE FOUNDING OF THE CITY TO THE END OF THE COMMONWEALTH - ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN LEECH.
• Publisher: BRADBURY, AGNEW & CO. (NO PUBLICATION DATE, PROBABLY CIRCA 1860.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good