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Burnside, W. F. & Owen, A. S.
Short Lives of Great Men.
Publisher: Edward Arnold, London;
Date of Publication: 1910
Stock Code: 8623
Octavo, pp. viii, 296. Frontispiece and 7 further plates. Prize binding of full polished burgundy calf, with 5 raised bands, black label with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartments; gilt border to boards and board edges with gilt armorial of Coleshill Grammar School to upper board and in blind border to dentelles. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Very light foxing to prelims; prize bookplate to pdep. A clean, neat copy; Near Fine condition. Handsome prize binding containing 44 short biographies including Sir Thomas More, John Bunyan and Edward Jenner. £30.00