GLADSTONE & HIS CONTEMPORARIES / 4 Vols / Portraits / Half-Leather / 1883

Description: William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Fifty Years Of Social and Political Progress. By Thomas Archer, F. R. H. S. Author of "Pictures and Royal Portraits," "Decisive Events of History," "The Terrible Sights of London," ETC. Blackie & Son; London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin. 1883 William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (1809-1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894 Details:Four volumes in two booksBoth books half-leather with gilt-lettering on red and black labels to spinesFive raised bands with gilt decoration forming six compartmentsMarbled text-block-edgesMany portraits Book IVolume I: 1830 - 1845 with brief retrospect from 1820 to 1830; pp:viii, 336Volume II: 1840 - 1854; pp:vii, 336 Book IIVolume III: 1852 - 1860; pp:viii, 336Volume IV: 1860 - 1883; pp:viii, 352 including index Size: 255mm x 185mmCombined weight: 3600gPrinted: 1883 Condition:Two well-bound books with a sturdy and weighty feel; boards a little rubbed with wear to extremities; some surface leather lost; endpapers with significant spotting, but only occasionally within the main text; leaves appear to be clean and free of notation, though lightly age-goldened; rear endpaper of volume 4 creased. Over all a good++ copy. Please consult photographs fully as these are part of the description

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