By Peter Parley [Samuel Griswold Goodrich]
London   Blackie and Son
7" by 5" 224pp.
Smart copy of Peter Parley's popular tales of Greece and Rome, in a charming Talwin Morris style publisher's binding.
By Peter Parley [Samuel Griswold Goodrich]

[1941] Peter Parley's Tales About Greece and Rome

London   Blackie and Son
7" by 5" 224pp.
Smart copy of Peter Parley's popular tales of Greece and Rome, in a charming Talwin Morris style publisher's binding.
£98.00
: 0.5kgs / : 816A27

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Publishers' Original Binding

Peter Parley's popular tales narrating of the history and culture of Greece and Rome, in Blackie's Library of Famous Books series. From the first settlement of Greece by the Phoenicians through to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks; and from the foundation of Rome to the gladiatorial exhibitions and other spots. 

Written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793-1860) under pseudonym Peter Parley, American author. 

Featuring a black and white frontispiece illustration. 

School prize inscription to front free endpaper, presented to Walter Bousfield by C. B, Tayler, curate of Brough, Westmorland.

Condition

In an attractive full cloth binding art nouveau style. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, minor bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, light soiling to boards and spine. School prize inscription to front free endpaper, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean with some age toning, as usual with the type of paper used.

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