Published by Bradbury, Soden & Co, 1844
Seller: Royal Oak Bookshop, Front Royal, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Leather spine and corners are rubbed, light wear otherwise, text is heavily foxed but readable, binding is tight. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!.
Published by Boston, Rand and Mann, 1849 0, 1849
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 12 mo., hardcover, only light wear to khaki blind-stamped cloth embossed boards. Preface and chapters on: Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Napoleon Bonaparte, Goethe, Robert Burns, Edmund Burns, Samuel Johnson, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Lord Bacon and Cervantes. Famous then (nearly 200 years ago) and famous still. 315 pp. plus ads. Illustrated with etchings. Book.