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A comprehensive collection of biographies of acclaimed authors and important historical figures. In a half calf binding, with marbled boards.A collection of biographies on many acclaimed authors and historical figures.Including: Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Burke, Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Robert Burns, John Wesley, Horatio Nelson, Friedrich von Schiller, Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, Doctor Samuel Johnson, Simon de Montfort, Dante, John Bunyan, William Ewart Gladstone, Martin Luther, Chaucer, Lord Chatham, The Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Disraeli, Alexander von Humboldt, Thomas A Becket, Christopher Colombus, Peter the Great, Julius Caesar and George Stephenson.Bound without title page or publishing information. In half calf. Externally, smart. Fading to spine, with rubbing to joints and extremities. Front joint cracked and very fragile. Rubbing to boards. Offsetting to endpapers. Mark to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd spot. Good.
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