1895-96 History of the English People

Description

Colour Plates, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Prize Binding, Signed Binding

Prize binding for The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. 

Eversley Edition, bound in full-crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf.

Illustrated with folding maps, colour folding maps, colour plates, and full-page black-and-white-illustrations. 

Prize bookplate to front pastedown of Vol. I, awarded to Leslie Vernon Slater for an Intermediate Examination in May 1916.

'A History of the English People' is a historical work by John Richard Green, that is 'a history, not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of English people'. It was originally published in as a 'Short History', after Green was given six months to live, and published in four longer volumes once he realised that he had more time to expand upon his work. 

Contents detail the years of Early England from 449-1071, to Modern England (1760-1815). 

Volume I has one folding map and four colour plates. 

Volume II has two colour plates.

Volume VI has four pages of full-page black-and-white illustrations. 

Volume VII has one colour plate. 

Volume VIII has one colour plate and two colour folding maps.

Collated, complete.