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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera

United States
About Item: London: Tim. Childe, 1704. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes: [18], 494, [10] p., engraved frontispiece; [16], 405, [15] p., engraved frontispiece; 20 cm. Contemporary blind-tooled and speckled Cambridge-style binding with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled title. Gilt-tooled decoration on other compartments. Green ribbon book markers. The frontispieces state: "London Printed for Tim: Childe." Vol. 1 title page states: "The Second Edition, very much Augmented and Improv'd." Vol. 2 imprint includes: "Oxford, Printed by Leon. Lichfield, for Timothy Childe . . . 1704." Includes indices. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of each volume of "The Honbl. George Baillie Esqr. one of the Lords of the Treasury," engraved by A. Johnston. George Baillie (1664-1738) was a member of the Parliament of Scotland from 1691 to 1707 and supported union with England; he sat in the… Read More
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