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The pictorial history of England : being a history of the people, as well as a history of the kingdom / illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts ...

Accession number
PML 144595-10
Creator
Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798-1866.
Published
London : Charles Knight and Co., 1838-1844.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Each volume has an ornamental t.p. added (dated 1837 in v. 1); in v. 5-8 (numbered v. 1-4 respectively) this title reads: The pictorial history of England during the reign of George the Third ... by George L. Craik and Charles MacFarlane, assisted by other contributors ...
Vol. 4 has at end a 63 p. chronological index, B.C. 55-A.D. 1760.
Continuation: The history of England during the thirty years' peace: 1816-1846. By Harriet Martineau.
Vol. 1: 887 p.; v. 2: 907 p.; v. 3: 912 p.; v. 4: 856, 63 p.; v. 5: 688 p.; v. 6: 729 p.; v. 7: 774 p.; v. 8: 733, 280 p.
Expanded from 8 to 16 volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who had the expanded set bound with 16 added custom printed t.p.'s which read: The pictorial history of England being a history of the people, as well as a history of the kingdom. Profusely illustrated, with upwards of two thousand additional portraits and views. ... London : Published by Charles Knight & Co., 1838-44. Illustrated and arranged in sixteen volumes, 1889.
Description
8 v. in 16 : ill., ports. ; 27 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red morocco by R. De Coverly.
Classification
Department