ROUMANIA PAST AND PRESENT

London:Longman's, Green, and Co. 1882. 1st edition. 289pp. Illustrated, with maps (by E. Weller), portraits, autotype and other full page plates, and numerous plans and woodcuts (by G. Pearson), chiefly from photographs by F. Duscher, Bucarest. Hardcover, rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, with gilt decorations and title in gilt on leather labels on spine strip. Leather scuffed and worn along all edges with raised bands rubbed, spine ends worn and frayed and edge points worn to boards. Internally, a bookplate to inside front board with free end-pages, both front and rear, covered in newspaper articles and illustrations having to do with Roumana. Once past the half title page, pages clean and bright. The binding is tight with hinges intact.