AUD 
CAD 
EUR 
HKD 
PLN 
SGD 
CHF 
USD 
+44 01225 448831
1902 A Short History of the English People
What Our Customers Say...
Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding
The four complete volumes of this work. With colour plates, illustrations, and photographs all selected by the author's wife, Alice Stopford Green, an Irish nationalist and historian in her own right. Collated, complete.
Originally published in 1874, without illustrations, historian John Richard Green began work in 1869, having been given a diagnosis of six months to live. Intended to be an account 'not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People', Green was criticised at the time for the omission of major historical events such as battles.
To the front pastedown of each volume is a former owner's bookplate with the Latin inscription 'gradu diverso via una', translating to 'the same way by different steps', belonging to a member of the Ewing-Crum family.
Condition
In the original half morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Light marks to cloth portion of front boards to volumes II and IV. Slight rubbing to front joint of volume IV. Light fading to spines. Contemporary owner's bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Near Fine
Delivery & payment
We send all of our books via courier which is a fully tracked and insured service. In our experience we find this to be the most reliable and quickest form of delivery. Our primary courier is DHL, but we are able to accommodate special requests if required, including postal delivery for items under 2kg. See More Details