Undated but circa 1880. 224, [16]pp. Decorated green cloth boards with gilt lettering front and spine. All edges gilt. Brown endpapers. 12mo. Cloth moderately rubbed and rounded at corners and ends of a sunned spine, a little dull all over. Prize presentation plate, dated 1897, on the front paste down, indicating the volume was awarded to one Albert Bradbury. Stamp on the copyright page (but I can't make out what it says). Front hinge cracked else internally neat. clean, bright and tight.
A selection of essays on eminent statesmen, lawyers, military commanders and artists from British history, staring with William Wallace.
