Accession number
PML 196071.38
Published
London: C. Knight & Co., 22, Ludgate Street, [1845?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Prospectus for Charles Knight's The cabinet history of England.
Printed in red, blue, and yellow; design layout is that of an open, illuminated volume.
Title at left; text of prospectus at right reads: The cabinet history of England. To be completed in Twenty Volumes, at One Shilling each, sewed, and Eighteenpence in cloth. ... The Chapters in the 'Pictorial History of England' entitled 'Civil and Military History,' supply the only complete History of England in our language written by one Author. Mr. Mac Farlane, the author of these Chapters, has indertaken to abridge them, and to continue them to the present day, so as to produce an original, complete, and really full narrative of our country's great story from the earliest times. ...
MacFarlane's "Cabinet history of England" was published by C. Knight from 1845 to 1847.
Decorative, "illuminated" border at right is signed: S. Sly, sc.
Printed in red, blue, and yellow; design layout is that of an open, illuminated volume.
Title at left; text of prospectus at right reads: The cabinet history of England. To be completed in Twenty Volumes, at One Shilling each, sewed, and Eighteenpence in cloth. ... The Chapters in the 'Pictorial History of England' entitled 'Civil and Military History,' supply the only complete History of England in our language written by one Author. Mr. Mac Farlane, the author of these Chapters, has indertaken to abridge them, and to continue them to the present day, so as to produce an original, complete, and really full narrative of our country's great story from the earliest times. ...
MacFarlane's "Cabinet history of England" was published by C. Knight from 1845 to 1847.
Decorative, "illuminated" border at right is signed: S. Sly, sc.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 34 x 38 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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