Classical and Mediaeval.
AUTHOR: Thomas Dudley Fosbroke. Published: John Nichols and Son, London, 1825
Edition: First edition. Copper engraved plates.
Specifically bound by Hunt of Norwick
for Sir F. G. Boileau, Bart. [Sir Francis George Manningham Boileau, 2nd Bt]. There is a library bookplate of Lord Nugent on inside cover.
Half-leather over marbled boards.
Gilt lineal borders.
Morocco gilt title, gilt raided bands, decorative panels.
Marbled endpapers, gilt top page blocks.
Continuous pagination.
VOLUME I.
Frontispiece portrait.
Full-page title vignette.
19 full-page plates.
In-text illustrations.
VOLUME II.
Frontispiece plate.
Title vignette.
12 full-page plates.
In-text illustrations.
Volume one covers the history of ancient Roman, Greek,
and Egyptian furniture, alphabets, and architecture
(including Dorick columns and houses of antiquity).
It also discusses Anglo-Saxon churches, castles and furniture,
and early English hand-writing.
The second volume delves into the history of barrows, classical arms
and armour, Anglo-Saxon arms and armour, Bronze and Iron Age clothing
(in Greece, Rome, and the British Isles), Roman military camp formations,
and the history of classical and Celtic coinage.

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