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Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand Grantley Berkeley 2 Volumes British Society

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Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand Grantley Berkeley 2 Volumes British Society

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This is the Richard Bentley (London) 1867 two volume (416 and 419 pages, plus editorial ad section) publication of Grantley F. Berkeley's Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand: Their Legends and Their Lives.
The covers, red backgrounnds with gold lettering and details, are stained, scuffed and with shallow edge wear, including frayed ends to the spines. They are securely connected at the spine and with clearly legible gold lettering.
The only writing is a name, in pencil, to the title page of Volume 1, and a notation to an end page. There are recurring spot and other light stains to the page faces, and stains to the page edges, but there are no substantial stains, and no stains of any kind to most page faces. There are several cracked gutters, but the binding is secure, with no loose or missing pages. There is shallow edge wear to a number of pages, but no tears of note. There are no stamps or other attachments. The accompanying photos are of this set.

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