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Very Good - Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved frontispieces, and multiple copper-engraved plates and folding maps throughout. Title-pages in each vol. state “The Eighth Edition” and “Illustrated with Copper-Plates.”
A clean and uniform set of this attractive illustrated edition.
Period full calf, gilt floral spines, raised bands, morocco labels (a few rubbed or replaced). Boards with gentle surface wear & corner bumping. Light cracking at a couple of joints but sound & firm. Text generally clean with age-toning and scattered foxing typical of period; stronger foxing to prelims/plate leaves. Engravings crisp; folding maps in good order with a few short closed splits at folds only. A solid, genuine 18th-century set, very presentable on shelf.
I: 376 · II: 484 · III: 438 · IV: 442 · V: 360 · VI: 344 · VII: 382 · VIII: 456 · IX: 356 · X: 496 pp. (≈ 4,134 total)
8vo (approx. 6 × 9 in / 152 × 229 mm) · Pages: c. 4,134 across 10 vols.
ESTC: T136380
No copies of this edition are held on WorldCat (the earliest edition is 1817, 13th Edition) Please see photos as part of condition report
