English History in Rhyme

Maroon cloth with embossed design; gilt title; decorated endpapers; 56 pages. Second, revised edition; first published 1886. During the late nineteenth century, the author and her pastor husband ran a home boarding and day school for young ladies in Manhattan. The genealogical part of this book, pages 23-56, and including Scottish tables, consolidates a great deal of information which, in that period, was not provided elsewhere in any one book.Light rubbing to cover extremities; partial splitting to cloth at front spine edge. Damp exposure to tail of spine and lower adjoining edges of boards is not obvious at the exterior, but moderate dampstains appear at lower margins, spreading from spine, of most interior pages. Few tiny black ink spots to rear board. Prior owner signature, date at front endpaper. Front signatures loose. First text page detached, now with tiny spots of glue repair to minimize further damage. Two light stray lines of ink on page 44. Otherwise clean and intact, and not as bad as it sounds.…