The Biographical Treasury; Consisting of Memoirs, Sketches, or Brief Notices of the Lives of Eminent Persons

854pp. Half leather over marbled paper-covered boards, four ribs. Spine label missing. Heavy wear to extremities, Spine cover partially detached at front board. Top text block edge sprayed. Cover detached from volume at front endpaper. Presentation plate on front paste down. minor worm damaged on first few pages. Internally neat, clean bright and tight. 12mo. Consisting of Memoirs, Sketches, or brief Notices of the Lives of Eminent Persons of all Ages & Nature From the earliest Periods of History to the Present Time Forming a New and Complete Dictionary of Universal Biography, The whole surrounded with Precepts & Maxims Original & Selected by Samuel Maunder Author of The Treasury of Knowledge & Library of Reference to which this volume is a companion.