John Richard Green A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE 1898 Decorative Gilt Binding Illustrated Color Plates Fold-Out Plate Large Format Social Industrial Moral Progress Romatically Historicised

Title: A Short History of the English People
Author: John Richard Green - John Richard Green was an English historian.
Editor: Kate Norgate, Mrs. J. R. Green
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
City: New York and London
Year: 1898
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 4 Full Set: Yes
Width: 7" Height: 10.25"
Book Details: This complete antique four-volume set is decoratively bound in red cloth with gilt spine lettering and elaborate ornament and title to the front boards, as well as top-edge gilt. This large-format illustrated edition contains color plates and numerous in-text illustrations (some full page), as well as a fold-out color frontispiece in Volume III. “A Short History of the English Peopleâ€, which appeared in 1874 gave Green an assured place in the first rank of historical writers.
The “Short Historyâ€, which in 1915 was republished as part of the Everyman Library, may be said to have begun a new epoch in the writing of history, making the social, industrial, and moral progress of the people its main theme. It sold 235,000 copies in England alone.
Condition / Notes: These decorative antique volumes show very well, with minimal indications of age and wear, including shelfwear and rubbing. The bindings and text blocks are firm. Text and illustrations are clear and crisp through mild age toning. The fold-out map in vol. III is torn along a fold. Volume III also has a small scrape to the front board.

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