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ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS, AND FINE SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES
ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS, AND FINE SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES

Memoirs of The Pretenders and Their Adherents, John Heneage Jesse, 2 Vols, 1845

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£30.00
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Current price £30.00

Memoirs of The Pretenders and Their Adherents, by John Heneage Jesse. In Two Volumes, complete.

Published by Richard Bentley, London. 1845 first edition.

A good minus set of 2 cloth hardbacks, with blind stamped covers and gilt titles to spine. Burgundy cloth boards, faded to brown at extremities. Worn, bumped and rubbed with some give in the spine. Binding is a bit weak with gaps to the gutter in places and some loose gatherings. Some water staining to endpaper and frontispiece of Volume I.

Text is bright and clean throughout, with toned text block edges. Imperfect, but a good reading copy of an uncommon first edition title.

Text in English.

Vol. I: Frontispiece + vii + 413pp + 2 x Plates (including fold-out); 

Vol. II: Frontispiece + viii + 410pp + 1 x Plate. 

Weight: approximately 1.31kg (the set - unpacked). 

Dimensions:

Each volume approximately 232mm tall x 153mm wide x 30mm deep.