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London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1856. [English History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 572 [26]. With occasional in-text wood engravings. In a mid-twentieth-century green buckram library binding with gilt titles and shelf-mark to spine. All edges flecked red. Library bookplate to front free endpaper, with barcode facing on the free endpaper. Stamp and blue ink serial number to verso of title page. Occasional pencil marginalia to the first thirty pages. Fair. Roberts was quoted as an expert on the Monmouth Rebellion by the great English historian Thomas Macaulay, to whom this volume is dedicated. Item #49666
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