Description
Total of 8 books, profusely illustrated with black and white sketch plates, maroon covers with gold gilt lettering, closed book edges are blue speckled, Books have green ownership stamp on first free endpapers “The property of the sergeants’ mess, D.C.O.R. 43rd, Ottawa”
Life and works of Washington Irving illustrated c 1899 x6 books
Volumes 4-9 only
V4, 5, bottom half of first free endpaper torn off, 6, tissue over plate torn out, 7, 9, tissue over plate is torn half way down but remains intact: Pollard and Moss c 1881 plate
V8, Pollard and Moss c 1880
Irvings’s Life of Washington, Illustrated, c 1899, x2 books
Volume 1 & 2
Volume 1 black and white sketch plate from the portrait painted by Stuart, b/w sketch of Martha is loose from the book but intact
Volume 2 plate tissue is torn but intact, a few pages have tears but are intact
Please consider photos as part of the description
book weight is 6.5kg(15lbs)
These cannot be shipped to PO box, you must have a physical address.