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Title: Short Studies on Great Subjects

Description: FINE BINDING BY HENRY YOUNG & SONS, LIVERPOOL. Half-leather over brown cloth with gilt lineal border. Gilt title, gilt raised bands, gilt panel vignettes to spine. Gilt top page-block. Marbled endpapers. Titles include: 'The Science of History'; 'Times of Erasmus and Luther'; 'The Book of Job'; 'Homer'; 'Reynard the Fox', and many more. A very lovely copy.

Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co., London

Author: James Anthony Froude

Date Published: 1867

Binding: Half-leather

Condition: Very Good

Reference: #28

Weight: 835g

Reserve: $10.00

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