from the Earliest Period of Authentick History to the Reign of Victoria.  Rogers Ruding, Third (best) edition, London, 1840.  3 volumes.  Almost a thousand pages, with plates, fold-out map (this is loose but complete) and the like.  All plates including the supplementary ones.  210 x 284mm.

Expertly (professionally) rebound in modern green cloth.  Spines with gilt titles.  The first  five plates a little stained on the left edge, otherwise most are nice and clean, with very little foxing !  The cover of volume 1 a little marked with tippex (?) and the others a little dusty, otherwise a very nice bright clean set, with stout, solid bindings, and the bookplates of David Griffiths.