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Samuelson, James.
Bulgaria Past and Present.
Publisher: Trübner & Co., Ludgate Hill, London;
Date of Publication: 1888
Stock Code: 15427
First edition. Octavo, pp., xiv, 247, [1], plus frontispiece, 9 collotype plates, 1 map, and 13 wood engravings, as called for. Publisher’s original navy cloth; titled in gilt to spine; badge of the lion of Bulgaria in gilt to upper board; blind rule borders to boards; chocolate-coloured end-papers. Historic newspaper clippings pasted to end-papers. Spine dulled; shelf-wear to spine-tips and to corners; spine a touch cocked; top edge dusty; hinges starting but holding well. Occasional nicks but internally otherwise clean and in good order. A very good copy. A history of Bulgaria from Antiquity to the late nineteenth century, by a prolific historian of the region. The preface states that this book was intended as a companion to Samuelson’s ‘Roumania Past and Present’ (1882), which is one of the books Bram Stoker consulted (and annotated) in the London Library when writing ‘Dracula’. £120.00